“Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye.
“Okay that’s just going to make ’em mad ” I said.
“Three hundred and ninety-two ” she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again.
“Saints in heaven ” he said to me rolling his eyes “how much deeper in love can I yet fall?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“They shall never believe that a young lord of Siena would march directly into their camp."
"And if they do?"
He gave me another small smile. "Then my beloved lady shall have to come and rescue me."
"Us," Luca corrected him, slurring his words now. "Have to rescue us."
He adjusted Luca across his shoulders. "Stay with me, Luca," he said sternly.
"Can't get much closer m'lord," Luca mumbled.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“Lia let out a low growl and moved her arrow to the base of his fat throat. "What do you think, Gabi? Would you like to see these nuptials through?"
"Not this day," I said
"How about on the morrow?" Marcello asked, smiling and lifting my hand to his lips. "If I am your groom?"
"Hold that eHarmony thought," Lia whispered in English. "We gotta get out of here.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“I was hedging. I had no idea about what would happen if I told him something about the future.
Like that Siena would face a plague within a few years. And that Florence would eventually rule them.
What would happen if I let such things slip? All sorts of time/space continuum stuff might come crashing down. Or maybe it wouldn’t.
I should’ve watched more Star Trek as a kid.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“Guys are just scared of beautiful girls, Dad said.
Sure, Dad, I said. Only ugly girls go to dances.
The right one will come around, he promised.
You’ll see.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“He moved to kiss my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my lips for several long, searching moments.
Right then, I wished we could stay together. Forever.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“He smiled at me with that grin…and I floated across the floor to him, my handsome prince.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“I’d been brief with her, not wanting her to stress over me and Lia. I mean, she knew I’d narrowly escaped death in freeing Lia from Castel o Paratore, but she didn’t know all of the details. That, like, I’d almost been killed a dozen times. You just didn’t tell your mom that kind of thing—not if you were trying to keep her from rushing you off to some safe tower.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“Well, hello there,” I said, “you big, beautiful overgrown passageway.” I looked over to Lia. “Let’s confuse ’em a little.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“I smiled. He had come for me. Saved me. How many times would this man save my life?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“And then we were gone, cascading back to the future.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
“I reached up and touched his face, feeling the appealingly masculine stubble there.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Cascade
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Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look;
O let me for one moment touch her wrist;
Let me one moment to her breathing list;
And as she leaves me, may she often turn
Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.”
― John Keats, quote from Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“My mother grimaces, clearly on to my BS. She’s what you’d call a health fanatic times one hundred, from the raw-ful cuisine she makes us eat to her handmade sanitary napkins (no joke: the woman actually uses kitchen sponges), and so, pepperoni-and-cheese-laden pizza ranks right up there with what fur coats are to PETA.”
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― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
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― Ilsa J. Bick, quote from Drowning Instinct
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