Emilia Quotes

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“There are victors and victims. Decide who you want to be. Or the choice will be made for you, witch. And I doubt you’ll like it.”

I threw my head back and groaned. “It’s a game of scopa, not a battle between life and death. Are you always this dramatic?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. ”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Of course. There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who owns who she is and apologizes to no one.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Instead of being ruled by fear, I could become fearless.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“What if I'm the villain? One who's so vicious, so terrible, I was punished to forget?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.”
― William Shakespeare

“He was beautiful.
The knight was beautiful, handsome when he smiled.
He didn’t want anyone to see it.
He didn’t want to acknowledge it himself.
But for a brief moment, I saw him. The real man inside of him, not the one tortured by secrets and pain.
And he was beautiful.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE”
― Lisa McMann, Fade

“Don't answer now, but I want to know if what you said then stands."
"You'll have to be more specific. I said a great many things."
"If I am still yours."
He stilled. My words hung between us, heavy and lingering. Like his gaze.
"If I am, I would tell you that you are mine. That I am choosing you as my husband. There is no one I'd rather confront my demons with, no soul I'd travel through Hell with. And no one else I want standing beside me when I go to the Shifting Isles tomorrow."
He was quiet for a long moment, seeming to gauge my sincerity and weigh it against his own feelings. "And if I don't require time to think it over?"
Thank the goddess.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“Everything was ruined, and everything was wrong, and not being able to shif shouldn've been the end of the world. But instead, for once, it was okay. --Cole's perspective”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Listen, sweetie, love isn’t easy. Love is an endless act of forgiving each other…it truly is. It’s not always a fairy tale but when you find that you want to be with that person…despite everything…that’s when it is…without question…true love.”
― Diane Mannino, Waiting for Romeo

“Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.”
― Shakespeare, William

“It had come into her mind that for life to be large and full, it must contain the care of the past and of the future in every passing moment of the present.”
― Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

“I will not charm my tongue: I am bound to speak”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Remove your thought: it doth abuse your bosom”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Thou hast not half that power to do me harm / As I have to be hurt.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Agosto é bello starsene a casa con la cittá vuota e nessun rompiballe in giro, magari arrivi che senti la tua solitudine farsi pesante ma é un gioco diverso ed essere soli fa molto piú male in mezzo alla gente, allora sí che é davvero doloroso e pungono le ossa e il respiro é davvero brutto , come vivere un trip scannato e troppo lungo. Ma Agosto é bello starsene soli in cittá, prendere l´auto e girare fino al mattino spingendosi pieni di alcool verso la montagna che tutto é uno scenario disteso e silenzioso e passi col rombo dell´auto come al cinema, uscendo dal quadro un attimo dopo esservi entrato e non si rovina nulla. La via Emilia é la dorsale di questo mio agosto inquieto e torpido, selvatico e morbido. Stasera mi sono messo in macchina lasciando il gigi a sonnechiare, menomale che la faccenda di Bombay é morta lí. Ora non voglio muovermi, soltanto scorrazzare la notte in questa prateria. E la scomessa e´venuta da sé. I bar tra Reggio e Parma, ventuno? No, trentatré.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli