Virginia Boecker > Quotes

“Nicholas says that magic isn't inherently good or bad, it's what people do with it that makes it that way. It took me a long time to understand that. Once I did, I realized it isn't magic that separates us from them, or you from me. It's misunderstanding.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“I'm quiet for a moment, enchanted by the idea of something stealing over you, settling into you, and telling you, with absolute certainty, who you are and what you're meant to do.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“I'll tell the others I lost you." His voice gruff, and in it I can hear all the emotion he despises, all the emotion he's trying so hard to contain. "And it won't be a lie.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“Then and only then will you realize that your greatest enemy isn't what you fight but what you fear.”
― Virginia Boecker , The Witch Hunter

“I look at him. He's the same Caleb I've always known. Restless, ambitious, always yearning for more. It's only now I realize how deep that plague of ambition has spread inside him. Like a disease, it rules him now: his thoughts, his actions, the things he chooses to see, the things he chooses to ignore. And, like a disease, one day it will be the death of him.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“I understand the need for deception. I should; I live a life of it. Distasteful, perhaps. But necessary.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“You see, Seraphina is unable to love. She cannot love as she is in mourning because her father is dead. While we're at it, let's kill her brother too. Two dead relatives are always better than one.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I circle around them, my sword pointed in their direction. "Hermes Trismegistus. Ostanes the Persian. Olympiodorous of Thebes---"
I stop, feeling like an idiot. These necromancers and the ridiculous names they give themselves. They're always trying to outdo one another.
"You five," I said instead. "By the authority of King Malcolm of Anglia, I am commanded to arrest you for the crime of witchcraft.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“Everything begins with an idea. Ideas are infallible, they are indestructible; the only thing stronger than an army of men is an idea whose time has come. It was with this conviction I conspired the very plot we sit on steward of.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I think the more you feel, the fewer words there are to describe it. It's as if the words don't do it justice; you can only write what is already dead in your heart.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“If I've learned anything in my position, it's that there's nothing more deceptive than the obvious.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“He steps forward and grasps my forearms for a moment, then quickly lets his hand drop, almost as though it's not his place to touch me anymore. And it's this: this small forfeiture of custody that makes me realize he's releasing me. Letting me go. That now, after spending half our lives together, we're going to spend the rest of them apart.”
― Virginia Boecker

“He looks at me and shakes his head, and he's still smiling, as if the thought of me is too much. I would like to be too much to him.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“Do what feels right to you, in whatever circumstance you find yourself in, even if it seems improbable or even impossible. And have faith. Everything else will follow.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“The warning is clear, but I back away anyway, breaking his hold on me. For a moment I think this is my real test: a test of strength and will and command and fear, every bit as real as the test in the tomb. A test not of Blackwell's design but one he contrived anyway: to make me choose between my best friend and my freedom, my family and my life.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“But then he leaves. I watch him go, wishing more than anything I was the kind of girl who could make him stay.”
― Virginia Boecker

“Ich reiße mich zusammen. "Nein. Es ist nur ... du weißt schon. Ich weiß auch nicht."
"Hmm. Klare und deutliche Worte werden meines Erachtens sowieso überbewertet.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“Whatever I know of dishonesty and deceit and half-truths hidden behind half-lies, he invented it.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I've loved words and I've hated them, but I've never been indifferent to them. I've spent the last few years fearing them, the way they have the power to give life to the things you feel, things that are safer left unnamed.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“Er schaute uns nacheinander an. "Habt ihr sie irgendetwas sagen gehört?"
Keiner von uns antwortet.
"Ich könnte schwören, dass ich die Frage laut und deutlich gestellt habe", sagt John trocken.”
― Virginia Boecker, The Witch Hunter

“Creo que con el tiempo, tú serás o bien mi mayor error o la mayor de mis victorias.”
― Virginia Boecker, The King Slayer

“I knew I had her in that place where a word is strong as a spell and a look as intimate as a kiss, the rush of feeling when you know someone is aware of everything you do, when a touch means everything and sometimes, it is.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“I wish you’d told me because I could have told you that I didn’t mind,” I say. “I don’t mind that you’re a girl. I like girls. That is, I like them, too.” It’s the first time I’ve admitted it out loud, this confusion I’ve felt since I loved Marlowe, then others like him, who turned out to be nothing like him at all, only to go and involve myself the same way with girls. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t matter, at least not to me, and I don’t know how else to explain it. All i do know is that I liked Kit the boy, and I can’t stop thinking about Kit the girl. Kit the person.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

“But ideias, as strong as the are, do not write history—men do. Women. We are what give ideas life. Were an idea to die, we could not mourn it.”
― Virginia Boecker, An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason