Stephanie Marie Thornton > Quotes

“Years ago, Re had raged against humans for violating Ma’at, so he had sent Hathor to destroy mankind. She transformed into the lion goddess Sekhmet and Egypt’s fields ran red with the blood of her rampage. Seeing this, Re realized his mistake and ordered Sekhmet to stop, but she was too gone with bloodlust to listen. Knowing he had to halt her some other way, Re stained seven thousand jugs of beer with pomegranate juice and poured the red liquid into her path. Believing the beer to be blood, Sekhmet gorged herself and passed out in a drunken stupor. When she awoke, her bloodlust had passed and she returned to being Hathor. Thus the goddesses of love and violence shared a common history.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Far better to dare mighty things and fail mightily than to never dare at all.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

“faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“You never know what you can achieve so long as you never stop trying.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

“She grasped the crook and flail with cool hands and sank gracefully to her knees. The High Priest of Amun placed a piece of flatbread imprinted with an ankh, the symbol of everlasting life, upon her tongue. It was gritty, the dough having been sprinkled with sand blessed by all the High Priests before it was baked that morning.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Ankh, udja, seneb!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not parade itself, is not arrogant or rude, does not seek its own, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

“Sinners make the best saints.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“It’s my duty as an older woman to inform you: love and lust are inconvenient at the best of times. Deadly at the worst of times. Consider yourself warned.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“Let this be my first lesson to you: words matter. Use them carefully, like bullets.)”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“Nothing good lasts...Don't trust anyone who claims otherwise.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“Sometimes I scarcely recognize the white-haired biddy I’ve become; I miss the hedonistic hellion who smoked foul-smelling cigarettes”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

“Even in death, there can be beauty and hope, if only we dare to look hard enough.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

“And wherever you are now, try not to cause too much trouble.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

“boy should never die doing the thing he loved. He should die warm in an old man’s bed, fondly recalling all those wild adventures. “You have my condolences,”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

“You’ll do what you’ve always done,” he said. “Fight for what you want, one day at a time.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“The credit of living belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, without great enthusiasms and devotions.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, American Princess

“All I want is a man with a little imagination. Is that too much to ask?”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

“We all have our own tragedies to live. And, in the end, death would claim us all.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

“Slaves marched in carrying blue faience glasses of wine and golden trays of imported Minoan olives, pomegranate-melon salad, and bread with cloves of garlic baked inside. Hatshepsut waved away a basket of mandrake berries with their intoxicating flesh. They didn’t need help celebrating tonight.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“This moment would forever etch her name on Egypt’s history. Twenty-six years old and dressed in a man’s long kilt of cloth of gold, Hatshepsut wore all the pharaoh’s trappings—the bull’s tail to denote strength, false beard to associate her with Osiris, and the golden uraeus at her brow for protection.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“But surely a return to the White House would be worth a few sacrifices?”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

“It seemed a cruel trick of the gods that youth and wisdom were never joined together.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Her name would now be engraved into the list of all the pharaohs who had ruled over Egypt, a living god in her own right.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt