Roma Quotes

“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Together or not at all, doragaya”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Your life," he seethed. "Is not a game of luck".
"Since when," Juliette spat, "did you care about my life?'
"I don't." He was trembling with fury. "I hate you".
And when Juliette didn't recoil, Roma kissed her.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I said I wanted you dead," Roma confirmed. "I never said I didn't love you”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I l still love you so much that I hate you for it”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Don't miss," Roma said.

"I never do," Juliette replied”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hate you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me?”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“moya doragaya, I love you, I love you”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“If the human soul has an afterlife, has a will, then his would be here for rest, and Alisa has no doubt that Juliette's would follow.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“My darling, darling Juliette”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“You are a liar, Juliette Cai," he said. "You lied to me until I wanted you dead”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Hello, stranger”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I would have found you anywhere.” He reached forward. Tugged that piece of her hair, then tucked the curl behind her ear. “Across the world and under it. No matter how well you hide. It doesn’t matter where you go. I’ll always find you. Understand?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Tutt'intorno a noi scorreva la città di Roma, splendida nella sua indifferenza, eternamente sicura di sé, felice di prendersi i nostri soldi e posare per una foto, ma senza avere alla fin fine bisogno di niente e di nessuno.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“En la época más gloriosa y floreciente de Roma, poco antes de sucumbir el poderosísimo Julio, las tumbas quedaron vacías, y los difuntos, envueltos en sus mortajas, vagaban por las calles de Roma dando alaridos y confusas voces; viéronse también raros prodigios en el Cielo, comon estrellas de colas encendidas, lluvia de sangre y maleficio en el sol; y el húmedo planeta, a cuya influencia está sujeto el imperio de Neptuno, padeció eclipse, como si hubiera llega el día del Juicio Final.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A decree prohibiting the separation of Romani families through the sale of slaves was adopted in Wallachia in 1850. The ownership of private slaves finally became illegal in Moldavia in 1855 and in Wallachia in 1856.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“Claims for compensation for physical damage through sterilization and for psychological damage through incarceration were not recognized for this reason. Claims for lost possessions were rejected on the basis of a wholesale prejudice that Gypsies did not own possessions. Claims for compensation for lost income on the basis of a reduction of earning capacity (as a result of physical and psychological damage and years lost due to imprisonment) were rejected on the grounds that Gypsies were unlikely to have sought employment even under more favourable circumstances. Like the German Jews, the Roms had been stripped of their citizenship rights by the Nazi regime's racist legislation.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“There was every proof that the persecution and genocide against Romani minorities had been carried out on the basis of racial ideology. Nevertheless, many Roms encountered difficulties reclaiming their German citizenship. As a result they were also considered to be ineligible for compensation payments, which according to the West German compensation law could be made only to German citizens. By the time their citizenship had been reinstated and compensation claims were filed again, claimants were often informed that the deadline for submitting claims had passed.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“Many Romani activists are in fact of mixed parentage. They are often individuals who grew up within the mainstream culture, ashamed of, or afraid to acknowledge, their Romani family connections. Others are persons of Romani background who acquired an education and spent the early years of their careers capitalizing on their Romani connections by engaging in academic research on Romani culture or providing expertise to public services and institutions on Romani society. They feel a strong commitment to challenging prejudice and to improving the destiny of their people. But many years of their lives have been spent struggling for recognition and acknowledgement among their non-Romani colleagues and peers.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“«A questo punto mi pare evidente che il problema siamo noi, – fece uno degli scrittori, – intendo noi romani, la classe dirigente è lo specchio del nostro marciume, tutto è marcio, anche i turisti. Immaginate Roma libera dalla nostra presenza». «Sai che palle», disse la psicologa. «Immaginate questa città deserta, – continuò lo scrittore, – fatta soltanto di fontane, di porticati, di giardini, di basiliche, fatta di statue al centro delle piazze ma anche di lampioni, di ospedali, di tralicci, di radioline lasciate sui balconi. Bandite le persone, sarebbero le cose a dialogare finalmente tra di loro. In nessun luogo come a Roma, questo dialogo sarebbe più musicale, più ispirato, più fecondo, più denso di significato».

«Ma che cazzo stai a di’?», rise di gusto l’architetto.”
― Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

“Mi stava offrendo del sesso? E perché avrei dovuto fare sesso con uno sconosciuto? Mai mi ero prestata ad atti occasionali. Tuttavia, quella voce, sempre più bassa, sempre più seducente, mi stava catturando. Anzi, mi aveva già incantato.”
― Mag Scrittrice, Room7 - Sei disposta a dimenticare te stessa?

“Roma me mostró las sorprendentes hazañas que pueden llevar a cabo los hombres de fe. Orar ante las tumbas de los santos y mártires, y estar en un lugar donde tanta gente ha vivido y ha muerto antes de mí, me hizo reflexionar sobre los constantes avisos de Nuestra Señora respecto a la brevedad de la vida en la tierra. Cuando llegas a conocer el Cielo, miras el mundo de un modo diferente. Entiendes que la vida en la tierra es sólo temporal y que la muerte no es un final. «Liberáos de todo lo que os ata solamente a las cosas terrenas y permitid que lo que es de Dios modele vuestra vida a través de la oración y el sacrificio».”
― Mirjana Soldo, My Heart Will Triumph

“It’s true, all roads do lead to Rome. Because after 13 years away, I got to come back for the second time in my life.”
― Drue Grit

“My, Rómovia, už sme raz takí,
ukradli sme slnku bronz,
hviezdam žiarivé diamanty
a ozdobili si nimi zamatové oči.
Tmavej noci sme zobrali čiernu farbu na vlasy,
ohňu plameň náruživej a ohnivej lásky,
a víchrici temperament,
čo vynesie
vesmírnu loď na rómsku planétu!”
― Elena Lacková

“Dětem ve školách bylo zakazováno mluvit romsky. Přišla jsem osobně do styku s iniciativními učiteli, kteří vybírali korunu pokuty za každé „cikánské“ slovo. Viděla jsem v jednom dětském domově dohola ostříhané děti za trest, protože mluvily cikánsky.”
― Elena Lacková, Narodila jsem se pod šťastnou hvězdou

“It was the winter of winters when everything glistened”
― Suzy Davies , The Snow Queen

“Don’t want white,” retorted the girl, lifting her chin so that she appeared haughty and queenly, although she was pouting. “I’m a gittin’ married in black n’ red.” Under her breath she whispered, I’ll be the Queen of the Gypsies!”
― Suzy Davies, The Snow Queen