Linda Lafferty > Quotes

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Men who thirst for freedom will find it, even if they drink at a poisoned well.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Declare not what you are, not what you have to be, but what you want to be.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“The pressure of politics can change the course of history, and even the word of God.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Drowning Guard

“Dreams are the bridge to your unconscious mind. Your strongest urges, hopes, and fears often make an appearance while your conscious mind sleeps.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar. Your name has great power, did you know that?”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“If you settle for despair, there is nothing I or anyone else can do to help you.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“My dear father said there was no tragedy that could not be made better by a good gallop in the hills,”
― Linda Lafferty, The Shepherdess of Siena

“The Taltos are possessed in a waking dream, going between the human and spirit worlds. And they communicate with animals, especially horses.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“It is the face of rebellion and determination. It does not show age, terror, or ennui. It is frozen in time, in a moment when you took a stand against a man who abused you. It is a mark of rebellion against man’s dominion, even an Ottoman Sultan. What face could be more beautiful, Kucuk?”
― Linda Lafferty, The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire

“Paris belongs to the world—and foremost to the French.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire

“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Only the devil could sear thumbprints so deep in your skin.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“Emperor Maximillian had brought peace to the kingdoms of Moravia, Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary. Though he had no time for his many children, he had found time to cultivate tulips in his beloved hrad gardens in the city of Prague.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“I have been foolish, inconstant, and arrogant. I am your humble servant in destiny.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire

“as our Russian tales tell us, a wish is rarely granted without a curse.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire

“hear the not-so-distant”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“My father says it is the peacemakers who take the biggest risks. He says any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“It is a marvelous thing to be out of control,” Don Julius whispered, his voice hoarse. “Do not forget that. I await the moment when we can finish what we started, Marketa.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“And Beethoven has written a piece expressly for her to show his gratitude. Fur Elise”
― Linda Lafferty, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire

“In towering letters Cicero’s words were engraved over the library entrance. Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“Love risks all, fears nothing! Do”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“I choose to recognize the message,” he said. “You are my savior—the only being on earth who can help me.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“The winds of Transylvania in winter are cold-toothed.”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“A knife in the hands of a good man can cut bread to feed his family. A knife in the hands of malevolent man is a weapon. Anything can be good or evil,”
― Linda Lafferty, House of Bathory

“It had long been assumed by the European royal courts that Emperor Rudolf’s own mental failings—bouts of melancholy and fits of temper—were a direct inheritance from his great-grandmother, Juana La Loca of Spain, the maddest perhaps of all the Hapsburgs.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“If you listen with your heart and pure soul, you will hear the music of the cosmos, in perfect harmony. It is only the sins and arrogance of man that obscure the sound.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“What a knack for secrecy and stealth, thought Marketa. Was it Jesuit training or his Spanish blood that allowed him to blend into the shadows and move invisibly? If he were not a priest, she would guess him a sorcerer or a thief.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Juana La Loca, had kept the dead body of her consort with her for years, caressing and sleeping with the decomposing corpse.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter