Constantina Maud > Constantina's Quotes

“Why should injustice, the darkness of justice, exist and not be an imperfect entry in a book unread for centuries? Until it is so forgotten, that no one remembers it was ever there.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Envy, however, is a thoroughly doomed state. And the only pity would be to let it introduce hatred to your heart. Hate only what you love.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“What a thraldom, to be able to dream and only then to be free!”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“As usual, however, those who strive to understand have no power to act.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Influence is like the tide. Sometimes it goes, sometimes, however, it comes.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Everything makes so much more sense, when you forget what life forces you to remember.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“And then, whatever you yearn for may indeed become a weakness or an open wound... if you make it the only standard by which you live your life.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Why must we overlook what we are most likely able to do?”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“That's what friends, that's what brethren are for. To be there, where words cannot.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“-Όλοι θα πεθάνουμε, Σκέμμο.
-Μόνο το Εόν μπορεί να είναι σίγουρο.”
― Κωνσταντίνα Κουτσουπιά, Ύδρανος

“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“I am Heathcliff!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.”
― Walt Whitman, The Leaves of Grass

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I was at a point where conversations like that really messed up with my painstakingly woven thought stream of nothingnesses.”
― Constantina Maud, YT-79605

“At that moment I felt that no physical pain could possibly amount to the wrenching one pounding within my heart.”
― Constantina Maud, YT-79605

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I am not afraid... Our own self is the only thing we should be afraid of.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Artless acts of trying to impress eyes unimpressed by any art.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos