Celeste De Blasis > Quotes

“I am sorry because there will never be enough time, not even in a hundred years from this day would be enough time for us to love”
― Celeste De Blasis, The Proud Breed

“You did not seduce me. I came to you. If you cannot accept my strengths as well as my weaknesses, if you cannot take from me as well as give to me, you cannot love me.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.”
― Celeste De Blasis, The Tiger's Woman

“It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“The air was cool and shadowed in the great oak. Alex took a deep breath, trying to taste its greenness. It did have a taste, an elusive sweetness. Eyes half-closed, legs dangling, she felt the solid trunk against her back, the pull of the earth on her legs. Despite her presence, birds flew in and out of the tree, and her mind went with them, seeking the course of their secret journeys. She was on the edge of knowing how it felt to be one of them when the thud of a horse's hooves brought her back to earth.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“Life is a matter of exchanges. Youth for age, ignorance for knowledge. Endless exchanges.”
― Celeste De Blasis

“These are your children, and like it or not, they are your responsibility. I presume you got these infants on my sister like a man, and if you want to walk and piss like a man, you can damn well learn to take care of your family like a man, too!”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“Responsibility,” Lexy said softly. “If women are to have the rights and privileges of full citizenship, then they must also bear the responsibilities. Anthea sees countless women who are so addicted to patent medicines full of alcohol and opium, they haven’t had a sober day in years. I understand that poor health or sometimes lives that are just too constricted drive more than a few to it, but I think many are simply willing to pay any price rather than take responsibility for their own lives. It is seductive, the idea of being cared for as if one is a child or an exotic plant. I think part of what Southern women are trying to preserve is the right to that kind of coddling. But in doing that, they also send the South backward, impeding progress at every turn. One certainly sees no agitation for women’s rights in the South, or indeed, for rights for anyone who is not white and male.”
― Celeste De Blasis, A Wild Legacy