Queen Quotes
Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.
They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.
I love you, " he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.
I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.
What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.
For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.
Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother, " Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.
Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.
Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.
I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.
The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.
You know nothing about me." "I know your soul. Everything else is an ornament.
Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.
The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.
Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.
Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them.
When you are apparently quite selflessly helping other people, you are actually trying to help yourself.
I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.
A symptom, " Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools.
The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.
He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.
It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.
What was once your crown will now be your collar, and you will wear it until you learn what it is to submit.
Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.
Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands
He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.
Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.