Barbara Quick > Quotes

“The sky on a clear night is a living, pulsating thing. The stars are like musical notes turned to light, and, like notes, they shimmer and swell and fade and fall. The painters have never captured it—but they never will until some painter teaches his colors to dance.”
― barbara quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from the context of literature, music, and art. But history has lately been revealed to me as the place where I live, where we all live, side by invisible side with others who - if we get quiet enough and listen carefully enough - will touch us and tell us their stories.”
― Barbara Quick, A Golden Web

“I gauge the closeness of my friends even now by how helplessly they can make me laugh.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.]
"Is it?" Alessandra asked, unable to suppress a worried sigh.
Mina looked at her as if she knew exactly what Alessandra was thinking. "I said 'romantic love,' my dear--not true love."
"But how can one know," asked Alessandra, "one from the other?"
"True love," said Mina, "is something that reveals itself only with the passage of time.”
― Barbara Quick, A Golden Web

“Desconfio que é tão fácil ser infeliz num lugar grande quanto num pequeno, ou sentir-se acorrentada quando se tem a bênção de mil liberdades. Para uma criatura de asas, sentir-se presa à terra; para um pássaro, não perceber que a porta da gaiola está aberta.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“As crianças são incapazes de acreditar que um dia, inevitavelmente, se tornarão velhas. Elas têm a característica que eu adoraria saber como recuperar. Mas os velhos - pelo que tenho observado aqui à minha volta em pessoas ainda mais velhas que eu -, os velhos vivem somente de passado.

Acho que estou mostrando a minha idade ao escrever estas linhas. O passado! Ou estamos vivendo nele ou nos enganando ao acreditar que ainda somos jovens como éramos então. Envelhecer ainda me parece algo que acontece aos outros, mas nunca vai acontecer comigo.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“Whoever says that girls are kind has never lived among them.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“...quando penso em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth”
― Barbara Quick, A Golden Web

“Allesandra stood close against Nero's flank flank and looked into her brother's blue eyes, "Your knowledge will keep me safe - or as safe as a girl with dreams can ever be in this small minded world”
― Barbara Quick, A Golden Web

“I think a good many things that common folk call miracles are merely a matter of an observant person's good plain sense”
― Barbara Quick, A Golden Web

“É revigorante ser lembrado, de vez em quando, de que, no mundo, não somos mais que partículas que podem ser varridas com a maior facilidade.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“I don't have any words to describe the sensations that keep me from sleep. Demons, perhaps. A sense of unworthiness so staggering that I could not keep myself upright under its weight. And yet I could not sleep.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins

“Sa shume kohe i kam vjedhur gjumit per te kerkuar neper udhet me te erreta te kujteses! Por gjumi me rrembente para se te udhetoja aq sa te gjeja cfare digjesha te dija.”
― Barbara Quick

“...quando em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.”
― Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins