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“Even as I am, the slave of my thirst, I am freer than I would be as the slave of your gift.”
“Even as I am, the slave of my thirst, I am freer than I would be as the slave of your gift.”
“What the deuce are you implying, Jack?”
I learned something with this quote. I was surprised to see it (a friend used this phrase all the time) and learned they said this back then (17th century) for real!
“I can see now that I behaved like a fathead…”
“…I can see now what a total and utter fathead I‘ve been.”
I love the usage of “fathead” here because I use that term daily 😂 it tickles me to see it in books/out in the wild
“Vampires, the whole lot of them,” Vambéry says. “They are rising from their graves.”
“Isn‘t it logical to assume that even the wildest of fables found life in a buried truth?”
-Vambéry
