Andromeda Romano-Lax > Quotes

“Since I was a very small boy, traveling from town to town, three hundred days a year, I learned to love this life. The cradlelike rock and sway of the train, the hospitality of our countrymen, the gentle hearts of our countrywomen. You will find that, as long as you keep moving, there is no end to the delights awaiting you. But you must keep moving, Feliu. Even when the heart skips; even when the view blurs.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Spanish Bow

“Al mejor cazador se le escapa la liebre”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax

“A lot of well-meaning and important people take an interest in eugenics,” Father said, still maintaining that curiously even tone. “Roosevelt does. Alexander Graham Bell does.” “And Margaret Sanger,” Mother chipped in. “A number of progressives.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, Behave

“John was wrong about many things but right about at least one: Fear determines so much. Fear of being in the dark. Being alone. Being wrong. Growing old. Losing potency. Losing control.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, Behave

“Conqueror’s glory be damned. I hadn’t even managed to wash my hair in a week.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, Behave

“Hiro said after a moment. “It hurts.”
“No, it’s fine. It will heal quickly.”
“Not your hand. The music.”
Angelica hesitated. Had she understood him? She said, “It does hurt. And it doesn’t. Maybe like all beautiful things.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, Plum Rains

“how to imagine and construct a life. The one you want, not the one other people want to sell you.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Deepest Lake

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —ANNE”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Deepest Lake

“I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.”
― Andromeda Romano-Lax, Behave