Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

- Ariana Franklin

the possession of power brings on madness.

- Ariana Franklin

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It …

- Ariana Franklin

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shad…

- Ariana Franklin

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

- Ariana Franklin

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

- Ariana Franklin

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

- Ariana Franklin

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

- Ariana Franklin

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had o…

- Ariana Franklin