Sarah Bower > Quotes

“Sometimes I dance, alone, to music no-one can hear but me. When I dance I feel the beat of the earth’s own heart rise through my feet and legs, through my loins and belly and into my chest, until my own heart beats in time with the earth’s. Then I wonder if you feel it too, beneath that portion of the earth’s crust where you stand, or walk, or lie, or dance too. Because always, when I’m dancing, I’m dancing with you.”
― Sarah Bower, Book of Love

“When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madame Fortune to prove us wrong.”
― Sarah Bower, Sins of the House of Borgia

“One night when the moon was full, I explained to you about how the moon controls the tides, and you said I was like the moon and you were the sea, always following me about. And I said nothing, because I knew it was truly the other way around.”
― Sarah Bower, Sins of the House of Borgia

“What a blessing it is we cannot see our futures.”
― Sarah Bower, Sins of the House of Borgia

“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale blue stars of blossom and chives nod heads of tousled purple. New sage leaves sprout silver green among the brittle, frost-browned remains of last year's growth. Lily of the valley, she thinks, that will be out in the cloister garden at Saint Justina's by now.”
― Sarah Bower, The Needle in the Blood

“We are fallen beings, my dear, and we experiment with all kinds of methods of redemption, but love is the only one. It is worth the pain to achieve it.”
― Sarah Bower, The Needle in the Blood

“The past doesn’t change, of course; it lies behind you, petrified, immutable. What changes is the way you see it. Perception is everything. It turns villains into heroes and victims into collaborators. Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate”
― Sarah Bower, Sins of the House of Borgia

“When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madam Fortune to prove us wrong.”
― Sarah Bower, Sins of the House of Borgia