Five Great Literary Battles Conflict is a feature of all good fiction. It stirs the emotions, moving us to love or to hate the characters. Heroic acts against the odds, family feuds, human beings against the natural elements, tense sexual encounters - all serve as stimuli, teasing us to imagine ourselves in the world of …
Category: literary quotations
Ballade of True Wisdom
Quotations Day 3 I've been spending most of the day in my garden. With temperatures ranging from 33 degrees on the patio at the back to 36 in front of our white garage door, it isn't the ideal weather for physical effort. But as rain is expected (actually it's started now), I thought it best …
I took her hand in mine …
For my second quotation, responding to the tag challenge set me by Anne at Inked Brownies, I have picked another from the Classics: 'I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening …
