Ariana Franklin > Quotes

“A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.”
― Ariana Franklin, The Serpent's Tale

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”
― Ariana Franklin

“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”
― Ariana Franklin, The Serpent's Tale

“Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death

“Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death

“She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death

“She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death

“The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.”
― Ariana Franklin

“Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death