Mariam > Mariam's Quotes

“Germans today keep their waste more thoroughly separated than their races.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Why won't you die?"
"because I have a story I was meant to live. And not even you can unwrite it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“The bond of our hearts spans miles, memory, and time.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“They had something worth dying for. Ah, but you have something they don't.
And what's that?
Something worth living for.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Take a breath, Thomas. There has always been fear. There will always be fear. It's up to us to stand tall, even when the fear demands we bow to it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Have you no honor to stand for your beliefs?” “Standing for my beliefs isn’t always the same as standing for truth.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“She was fire and life.

She was awe and starlight.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“It is if you separate the two- old life and new life. But once you learn that it's all one life and each day is a new page, it gets a bit easier to let your story take an unexpected path.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Let no one call you tame.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Peace, quiet, and safety are all well. But community and relationships are what truly fill a person's life.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“And hope never abandoned us - only we could abandon it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“No amount of age, pride, or maturity could stop me from loving my papa with the heart of a little girl.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“But there was still light - we were just learning how to find it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“My blood is my crime.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Romanov.
For that name alone, bound to my blood like a Bolshevik is bound to the Russian Revolution, I am destined to die.
Because not even royal blood can stop bullets.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Healing. Forgiveness. Shared story. The promise of walking life with someone who knew my bloodied past. A hand willing to touch the skin of a Romanov and feel only joy.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“All my life I was driven by the loyalty of caring for the people I loved...I was taught that nothing was more important than such care. But your family showed me differently. You cared equally as much about those you loved-you would do anything for them. But you also allowed yourselves to love...more. You loved your enemies. You loved your friends.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I squeezed his hand, so tight it likely pained him. But sometimes comfort needed to sting more than the sorrow for it to break into the grief.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Revenge would have shattered us both. But you've given us the opportunity to be strong. To mend our hearts instead of break them further.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“You find joy in so many little things. For once... I want to see joy find you. Surprise you. You deserve it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“That was how we sisters worked. When one was weak, another picked up the strength.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I’d told him I was trying to forgive him. As I lay in the grass next to the spell that could rid me of heart pain, I realized that a part of forgiveness was accepting the things someone had done—and the pain that came with that—and moving on with love. Forgiveness was a personal battle that must always be fought in my heart. Daily. And though I was tired of running and surviving and fighting . . . I wasn’t ready to surrender that battle yet.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I know," my lips said.
I know, my head said.
I want him, my heart said.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I liked forbidden things.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“We understood that being left in the dark was far more despairing than dealing with the weight of the darkness.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I took his hand.
"It'll be okay. This will help you." For now.
"I will save you." Maybe.
"I love you." Always.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Nothing was more exhausting than putting forth kindness and receiving indifference in return.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“Papa always said that tears were the most fervent prayers, so I let them flow.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“But light could not be so swiftly overcome by darkness. Not when that light rested in a person's soul.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov