Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“I love you. I love the way you rub the scar on the back of your hand when you're nervous. I love the way you make a sword into a living part of your body. I love the way you burn your eyes into me, as if you're seeing me fresh every time. I love the black streak in you that wants to kill the world, and the soft streak that is sorry afterward. I love the way you laugh, as if you're surprised that you can laugh at all. I love the way you kiss my breath away. I love the way you breathe and speak and smile. I love the way you take the air out of my lungs when you hold me. I love the way you make a dance out of death. I love the confusion I see in your eyes when you realize you are happy. I love every muscle and bone in your body, every twist and bend in your soul.”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“I am Athena. Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and Rachael of Masada. I am as mortal as you, you common little man. And I fear no one!”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“Nadie escucha la verdad cuando las mentiras son más interesantes.”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“He loves me hard”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

“It was easy to blame people for the misery of life rather than blaming the sand. Yelling at the sand got you nowhere. People yelled back, and at least that was a response. An acknowledgment. Being tormented and simultaneously ignored was the worst.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“Here was where she had learned this skill all those years ago, where she had learned how good it felt to run away.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“Love was earned and hard-fought and cherished. It was Marco's face and his rough palm on her cheek. It wasn't something a family got for being a family.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“And the earth sat upon his broken chest.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare. In a nightmare at least her enraged screams would come out a hoarse whisper, but Vic could not manage even that. Could not manage even a whimper.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“There was so much to do and not enough buckets.”
― Hugh Howey, Sand

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
― William Butler Yeats

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West