Nathalia > Nathalia's Quotes

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all. ”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Sebastian, who had begun to laugh, seemed struck by that last comment. “Ahhh,” he said softly. “That explains it.” He was silent for a moment, lost in some distant, pleasurable memory. “Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution. They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they’re sirens who lure men to their downfall. You won’t even notice the moment she steals the heart right out of your body—and then it’s hers for good. A wallflower never gives your heart back.” “Are you finished amusing yourself?” Gabriel asked, impatient with his father’s flight of fancy.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.”
“That could have happened to anyone!”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Well, there was something I once read... It was an astronomy book that said in most of the constellations, the stars don't actually belong together. They only appear to. They look to us as if they're close to each other, but some of them exist in another part of the galaxy altogether. That's how my family was. We seemed to belong to the same group, but we were all very far apart”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“I never try to make people feel better by shading the truth one way or the other. I merely relate the facts. How you react to them is your responsibility, not mine.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“I have to listen to my heart," Helen said quietly.
That elicited a bitter scrape of laughter, "The downfall of every woman since Eve has begun with those exact words.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“Kissing is the best thing lips do other than smiling.” Cassandra”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people’s.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“Gossip never has to be true. It only has to be interesting.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“Do you think a commoner should dare to dress like a blue blood?” Rhys asked as Quincy pulled the hem of the robe over his legs.

“I believe every man ought to dress as well as he is able.”

Rhys’s eyes narrowed. “Do you think it’s right for people to judge a man for what he wears?”

“It is not for me to decide whether it is right, sir. The fact is, they do.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“It seemed that it was the rest of the world that had gone mad, not her—but if she was the only one who thought so, could she truly call herself sane?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“A working woman, rising before dawn to spin and needing light in her cottage room, piles brushwood on a smoldering log, and the whole heap kindled by the little brand goes up in a mighty blaze. Such was the fire of Love, stealthy but all-consuming, that swept through Medea's heart. In the turmoil of her soul, her soft cheeks turned from rose to white and white to rose.”
― Appolonius Rhodius, Jason and the Golden Fleece

“She didn’t know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent . . . or obsessed.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.
"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.

At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.

By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.

For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.”
― Longus, Daphnis and Chloe

“Daphnis is beautiful, yes, but so are the flowers. His pipe sends forth beautiful sounds, yes, but so do the nightingales. But no words come to me about those things. I wish that I could be his pipe so he could breathe into me all day.

— - Longus, Daphnis and Chloe”
― Longus, Daphnis & Chloe

“His heart ached as if eaten away by poisons.”
― Longus, Daphnis & Chloe

“Words spoken in the dark in the middle of the night always feel so much heavier than they would at any other time.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon