Catherine P > Catherine's Quotes

“I set off, off to kill the man I love.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

“And then Valentine had told them they were brother and sister, and Jace had realised that there were worse things, infinitely worse things, than Clary leaving him for someone else -and that was knowing that the way he loved her was somehow cosmically wrong; that what had seemed the most pure and most irreproachable thing in his life had now been defiled beyond redemption. He remembered his father saying that when angels fell, they fell in anguish, because once they had seen the face of God, and now they never would again. And he had thought he knew how they felt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“I don’t belong to anyone. I make my own choices."
"And you’re with Adrian," said Dimitri.
"But I was meant for you.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“Ekaterina held her hand out to Lissa. "Rise," she said. "You will never kneel to anyone again.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“He has come to seduce the god of seduction and, oh, has he come prepared.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar of combat. "Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."
"Funny," I said, shifting my hold on the stake. "That is kind of why I'm here."
"Angels fall, Rose.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“I nearly moved away because it felt unbearably good. I did not because I had seen his teeth. One did not run from a predator.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“The image is ironic -a mortal woman, killed in the act of trying to lay claim to a goddess's power. And a God's lover.
I imagine Itempas will send me to an especially awful hell.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“It occurred to me then, as I stood up for myself and what I needed, that our old teacher-student roles were gone forever. Now we really were equals”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.”
― Ted Hughes, The Tiger's Bones

“Some part of me agreed with Viraine: to love such a creature was beyond foolish edging into suicidal. Yet I did.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante, Inferno

“ANTONIO: Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that I go with you?
SEBASTIAN: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therfore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Oh, yes, I know the way to heaven was easy.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Poems

“Love is a familiar Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”
― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”
― William Butler Yeats

“If you shall die before me, reserve me a place in Heaven.”
― Aurealis

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A grand attempt to reach beyond the world of mundane life and transcend the ordinary limits of human existence through accomplishment of the miraculous - a story of engineers who tried to reach the heavens.”
― William Bainbridge, Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence

“An idle mind is the devil's playground.”
― St. Jerome