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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Only the devil could sear thumbprints so deep in your skin.”
― 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.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“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

“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

“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 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

“hear the not-so-distant”
― 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

“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

“Too much yellow bile causes lunacy. It boils up in the veins and scalds with burning lust or murderous passion.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“We must break his will, then,” the abbot said. “For the good of his soul and the soul of the Hapsburg Empire, we must bring him to God. Only God can cure his infirmity and mind.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“But 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

“You may howl like dogs at the moon, but the moonlight will not change its color.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“There is a force in our sun, a force in our planets. Each follows its own course, but each is inextricably bound to every other.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“It was this moment when I realized a man’s word could poison woman against innocent woman if she surrendered to its violence, and indeed a woman could be the uglier beast.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Drowning Guard