Queen Quotes
There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.
Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.
I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of a desire he cherished more than he cherished me, the woman he claimed to love.
I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.
I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.
And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.
Once more for Britain, � I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.
Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty.
I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.
The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.
Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.
To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.
His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.
But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.
Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.
I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.
They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop.""What?""What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple.""Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.""Say it!
I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home.Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share withsomeone you love, I mean?
Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.
And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.
It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.
Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision.
True love takes time. It’s an earned comfort that tells you she’ll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the same.