Katherine Marsh > Quotes

“There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Even in the darkest times and places there were always good people. People who would help others out of the kindness of their hearts.”
― Katherine Marsh, Nowhere Boy

“I had never been the receptacle of someone's hope, and found this weightless thing to be a heavy burden.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“We are nothing if not our hopes and dreams”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I was told that there was nothing for me but to come here. But, as with life itself, it may not be our choice to come, but it is our choice to leave.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.”
― Katherine Marsh

“Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars?”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“There are some men, Jepp, whose lives are like this-- a single volume. Their story is seamless, without fissures or breaks. They live but one life. Then there are others, like you and me, whose lives are a series of volumes. Their stories stop and must be started up again. They must accept this is so, and put one book away on the shelf in order to start another.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Why did you teach me to love, then leave me when my heart became attached to you.”
― Katherine Marsh, Nowhere Boy

“To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I gently touch the stars, wondering if they hold my fate or whether holding them, as I do now, allows me to create my own.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Do you think the heart does not heal and change?”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.”
― Katherine Marsh

“I think I know a place we can go where they know about unnatural things.”
― Katherine Marsh, The Night Tourist

“History is the story the powerful tell. It's not always the true story.”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“You need to have hope.”
― Katherine Marsh, The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine

“but to change the world maybe you had to upset people, even the ones you loved.”
― Katherine Marsh, The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine

“It occurs to me that cities are like life itself- continual in a comforting way but also, in a more terrifying way, indifferent.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I am not a curiosity or a clown. I am a boy with an agile mind and aspirations to use it. We are nothing if not our hopes and dreams.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Everyone’s always going on about how we have to learn to control ourselves, but the male gods don’t have to control themselves, do they? They just start wars and carry off women and slay some supposed ‘monster’ because she looks at them wrong—”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“I don’t think she’s the worst,” Fia said. “Look at it from her point of view. Men are constantly invading her home and trying to cut off her head. That wouldn’t put me in such a good mood either.”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“To love is to value the happiness of another as much as your own, and I love Magdalene more dearly than anyone on this earth.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Why were the male gods allowed to get angry, and they weren't considered out of control and monstrous? Even the goddesses were portrayed as emotional. Hera was jealous. Aphrodite was fickle. . Only Athena could get mad and was still considered wise. Probably because her anger was usually directed at some other woman, such as Arachne, or on behalf of some hero she liked, such as Odysseus.”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“But you shouldn’t be ashamed of who you are, Ava. No matter what Athena or anyone else says.”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“Stories are powerful," Medusa said. "That's why the male Olympians shaped the myths to celebrate and protect themselves. Look at those stories carefully. They either transform women into objects that have no voice, like a tree or a spider, or else they turn them into monsters.”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“But Zeus—” “We have allies and protectors too. Zeus didn’t even have the votes to harm me.” Her mom just sighed. “He’s tricky, Ava. He’ll find a way; he’ll always try to keep you down.” Ava stared fiercely at her mom. “And I’ll always find a way to get back up. I’m not going to live in fear, and you shouldn’t, either. We’re not monsters, Mom. We’re goddesses—smart, fearless, and beautiful”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“Even in paradise, the world beckons.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Anytime we question the stories they teach us or suggest there's a different way of seeing things, they say we're causing trouble. Everyone's always going on about how we have to learn to control ourselves, but the male gods don't have to control themselves, do they?”
― Katherine Marsh, Medusa

“Like two planets, we are conjunct for a moment, then spin away. I feel the longing the spheres must feel as they forever pass in the heavens.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars