Erika > Erika's Quotes

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."
"They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down."
"Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed."
Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
― Cassandra Clare

“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."
Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?"
"It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically."
"Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared.
Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.
Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.”
― Kathy Reichs, Break No Bones

“Wherever we are, we are as one”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered,”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Politics have long been defined as “the systematic organization of hatreds.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.”
― stacy schiff

“History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

“In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

“And although I’d always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”
― Michelle Moran, The Heretic Queen

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal