The Scarlet Blade

—Robert Moss, on Joan of Arc, in The Three “Only” Things

More things I just need in my life….

— Katherine Mansfield, from The Collected Stories; “The Voyage,” (via loveage-moondream)

“Then what shall we die for? … Now you will listen to me. Listen! The Brethren will still be looking here, to us, to the Black Pearl to lead. And what will they see? Frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship? No. No, they will see free men! And freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons. They will hear the ring of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows, and the strength of our backs…and the courage of our hearts! Gentlemen! Hoist the colors.”

Hair for a woman of Gondor

from Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing, Margaret Atwood, 1939.