James Alexander Thom

Quotes

• “Before you're ready to tell that story well, you might have to study and learn the equivalent of an entire specialized c...”
• “Mortmain is an old French word that should be tattooed on the inside of any historical novelist's skull. This wonderful ...”
• “you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor,” or, as Napoleon said,...”