Marlena > Marlena's Quotes

“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

“Have you ever been - well, i mean, have you ever - really wanted someone ? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didnt matter ?”
― Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

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

“But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men.”
― Kate Quinn, Lady of the Eternal City

“He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side.”
― Kate Quinn, Lady of the Eternal City

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”
― Kate Quinn, Daughters of Rome

“Oh, Hell's gates!" Annia cried, borrowing Vix's favorite curse.”
― Kate Quinn, Lady of the Eternal City

“...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.”
― Michelle Moran, The Heretic Queen

“Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

“I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.”
― Michelle Moran, Cleopatra's Daughter

“Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.”
― Michelle Moran, Cleopatra's Daughter

“What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change”
― Michelle Moran

“Empresses," Vix said in disgust. "They're always trouble, the tricky bitches. Emperors might forgive you if you cross them, but never empresses.”
― Kate Quinn, Empress of the Seven Hills

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight

“You have to fight because you can’t count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight

“The kind of hope I’m talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you’re going through and everything you’ve gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I’m talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight

“Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight

“Once you give them the power to tell you you’re great, you’ve also given them the power to tell you you’re unworthy. Once you start caring about people’s opinions of you, you give up control.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight

“I am not looking to escape the pressure. I am embracing it. Pressure is what builds up in the chamber behind a bullet before it explodes out of the gun.”
― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight