Sam Reviews "The Library Policeman" by Stephen King

"'Tis the human touch in this world that counts.
"The touch of your hand and mine,
"Which means far more to the fainting heart
"Than shelter and bread and wine;
"For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,
"And bread lasts only a day,
"But the touch of the hand and the sound of a voice
"Sing on in the soul alway."
- Spencer Michael Free

"It was good just to find out you still had a heart, that the ordinary days hadn't worn it away."

"His face was dead, as if he could not understand neither kindness nor love nor mercy.  His mouth was set in lines of ultimate, passionless authority."

"My reputation went to hell in a handbasket, but she never got so much as a splash of mud on the hem of her skirt."

"Every now and then I start to think I'm over it [the death of my son] and then it gets on my blind side and hits me again. I guess some things take a long time to shake out, and some things don't ever shake out."

"It's just that [talking about my son] brings him back so. How he was. That hurts, but it feels good, too. Those two feelings are all wrapped up together."

Sam Reviews "The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" by Joseph Bédier

So did they only love each other because of the weird potion they drank?

Was it really necessary for there to be two Iseults?

"And as by sadness you came into the world, your name shall be called Tristan; that is the child of sadness.”

"They always could stay near his couch because their love overcame their abhorrence."

"So fear maddened the Queen, but not in truth the fear of Brangien who was loyal; her own heart bred the fear."

"For no lovers ever loved so much or paid their love so dear."

"'Sire, since I may choose a reward according to your word, give me the little fairy dog.'
"'Friend, take it, then, but in taking it you take away also all my joy.'"

"Now a woman's wrath is a fearful thing, and all men fear it, for according to her live, so will her vengeance be; and their love and their hate come quickly, but their hate lives longer than their love; and they will make play with love, but not with hate."

"May all herein find strength against inconstancy and despite and loss and pain and all the bitterness of loving."