“I love you. I love the way you rub the scar on the back of your hand when you're nervous. I love the way you make a sword into a living part of your body. I love the way you burn your eyes into me, as if you're seeing me fresh every time. I love the black streak in you that wants to kill the world, and the soft streak that is sorry afterward. I love the way you laugh, as if you're surprised that you can laugh at all. I love the way you kiss my breath away. I love the way you breathe and speak and smile. I love the way you take the air out of my lungs when you hold me. I love the way you make a dance out of death. I love the confusion I see in your eyes when you realize you are happy. I love every muscle and bone in your body, every twist and bend in your soul.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Have you ever been - well, i mean, have you ever - really wanted someone ? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didnt matter ?”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“I am Athena. Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and Rachael of Masada. I am as mortal as you, you common little man. And I fear no one!”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut?...You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“The crowd's murmuring rose to a roar, and for the first time in a week the agony of worry for my son was drowned out as his father strode out onto the sand.
Arius.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Nadie escucha la verdad cuando las mentiras son más interesantes.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Los dioses nos dan a los enanos unos centímetros de más aquí abajo para compensar los que nos quitan de altura.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Los duelos de bestias salvajes siempre abrían las festividades matutinas. Hoy, en primer lugar había un combate entre un elefante y un rinoceronte. Este último terminó sacando un ojo a su rival con el cuerno. Pensé que podría haber vivido muy feliz sin necesidad de saber cómo sonaba el grito de un elefante.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“You get in trouble no matter what you do,” Vix said sagely, “so you might as well do everything you can.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Arius in his injured ankle; he drew a breath through his teeth. “Why her? Why not me?” He regarded her briefly. “Because you look like a ferret.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
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“I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.”
― Kermit Roosevelt III, quote from Allegiance
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
“He pulled me up and onto the bed, locking me in his arms as he kissed my lips.
He ran his hands against my bare back and whispered. “Even if I do like you…”
“I think you do.”
“Shut up, Gillian.” He bit me. “Even if I do like you - which I don’t, you’re going to have to come up with a much better reason that that to get me to stop fucking you…”
― Whitney G., quote from Turbulence
“This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and ivy. We lose them twice over, Lucy. Death’s not the worst of it. We turn our faces away.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Empty Grave
“How many things here do I not want (Voltaire when in London.”
― Voltaire, quote from Letters on England
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