Issabelle Perry > Issabelle's Quotes

“And if doing what’s right makes someone angry with me, then may I cause rage and fury wherever I go.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom

“How many of us acted and spoke out and fought for beliefs that we held because our environment told us to? As much as I wanted to blame my England, I knew the blame sat with me. I hadn't trained myself to discern. To examine. To seek the source.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Maybe it took the ugly things--the ashes, the scraps, the dirt--to grow the beautiful things.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.”
― Jocelyn Green, The Mark of the King

“You were created for more than to bear the weight of your shadows- but you have to choose to no longer let them define you. You have to choose to let the light shine through the shattered pieces.” – Tiger Lilly”
― Kara Swanson, Dust

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You can't judge an entire group of people by the actions of a few.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Yet if you must forget Creator in order to live, what is left to live for?”
― Chawna Schroeder, The Vault Between Spaces

“Have you no honor to stand for your beliefs?” “Standing for my beliefs isn’t always the same as standing for truth.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Unfortunately, I understood exactly how she felt. Nobody should have to bow to a false prince.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“What’s the point of gaining peace if it costs us our freedom? I won’t trade the one for the other.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

“I'm still a king. My title isn't determined by my crown; it's in my blood.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

“You be careful," he replied. "I've stayed out of trouble for two weeks. You don't seem able to avoid it for two minutes."
I laughed. "I can easily avoid it for two minutes. It's the third minute that always seems to challenge me.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Scourge

“I could not deny the existence of God. I had seen His hand, felt His hand so prominently in my life. How else could this beautiful world have come to be? By some random bang? Nay, but by the breath of the Almighty, so Mary Lynde had called Him.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Held Captive

“Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I'm not crazy, isn't that crazy?”
― Captain Jack Sparrow

“It's not so much the destination as it is the journey." -Captain Jack”
― Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the caribbean

“It’s not the strength of your faith that counts. It’s Who your faith’s in. That’s what matters.”
― Kristina Hall, Promises Unbroken

“Sometimes, life comes from behind and scares you so badly that it takes your breath away.... But don't worry. You will breathe again.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“I am commanded by the king of Avenia to give you one last order and so I shall. Hear me now and always. Be loyal to the thing you know is right. Never bend to weakness, never yield to a false crown. Right will always triumph in the end, and you will want to be on that side when it does.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

“May we never forget. May we live with honor at all times, regardless of our circumstances. And may we choose love, a weapon that will defeat hate every single time. Love is the resistance.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

“And all was not perfect, but it was very good.”
― E.G. Bella, The Toymaker's Doll: An Allegorical Short Story

“Frederick, God is your Father and in His eyes, you are legitimate.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Peasant's Dream

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham”
― Billy Graham

“To love anyone is to risk.”
― Stephanie Morrill, The Lost Girl of Astor Street

“If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

“I want to be able to look at the sunrise and think about the new day ahead of us—to rebuild our broken lives, fallen towers, and kneeling country. To start over and make something bright and beautiful out of the smoke and ashes.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Daylight: A 9/11 Short Story

“Father asks me to tell all who have remained loyal to him and those over who they might have influence, that they should not advenge him, for he has forgiven everyone and prays for them all; that they should not themselves seek revenge; that they should remember that the evil there is now is in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that will conquer evil – only love.”
― Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

“За Отрока — за Голубя — за Сына,
За царевича младого Алексия
Помолись, церковная Россия!

Очи ангельские вытри,
Вспомяни, как пал на плиты
Голубь углицкий — Димитрий.

Ласковая ты, Россия, матерь!
Ах, ужели у тебя не хватит
На него — любовной благодати?

Грех отцовский не карай на сыне.
Сохрани, крестьянская Россия,
Царскосельского ягнёнка — Алексия!

4 апреля 1917,
третий день Пасхи


Pray for the Son - the Dove - the Adolescent,
For the young Tsarevich, for the young Alexis -
Russia, pray, who the true faith confessest!

Wipe those angel eyes now, ponder deeply
Him that fell upon the stones - think meetly
On the dove of Uglich, on Dimitri.

Gentle mother, Russia, kind, caressing!
Is thy heart so hard as not to grace him
With thy loving-kindness, with thy blessing?

Visit not upon the son the father's trespass.
Russia of the country folk - be his protectress:
Spare the lamb of Tsarskoye Selo, Alexis!

4 April 1917
Third day of Easter”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, The Demesne of the Swans