Alice > Alice's Quotes

“Men are hungry fools.
If they cannot eat it, wear it, or use it, they kill it anyway. They spread like fungus through the heart of the world. Lift a rock, and there: man.
But that is not quite right. At least fungus grows and feeds other life. Men only devour. Everywhere they reshape in their image. To their needs. Forests are felled for their homes. Fields are forced to bear their fruits, their grains, their decisions. A fungus only kills. Men change. Men demand order from nature. Men melt rocks and form metal, biting iron to pierce and slay. What can she do against such poison?”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“Sometimes we have to hide from what others see in order to be what we know we are.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“Sometimes, if you want to save other people, you need to remember to save yourself first.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

“If there’s one thing I can always rely upon, it’s the reassuring dependability of human idiocy. Give your kind a century or so, and they’ll happily repeat the exact same mistakes that nearly wiped them all out a few generations before.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

“And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Imagine being a god, she thought, and still needing to tell everyone how impressive you were.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“I know when you talk of beauty you mean something different from what I mean.’ ‘I see.’ He took a step towards her, and she forced herself not to take a step back. ‘So what do you mean by beauty, little Gorgon?’ ‘Euryale tends every one of her sheep like it is a child. Sthenno learned to cook so she could feed me when I was little. They care about me and protect me. That is beauty.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“You can't prove what you believe,' she said. 'You can only believe it.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Why would anyone love a monster?' asked Perseus.
'Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?' said Hermes.
'I mean, I wasn't...'
'And who are you to decide who is a monster?' added the messenger god.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

“Men will tell you that Gorgons are monsters, but men are fools. They cannot comprehend any beauty beyond what they can see. And what they see is a tiny part of what there is.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Gorgons aren’t supposed to be like gods. We belong here, in the place between the land and the sea, not on a lofty mountain. They put our image on the outside of temples, not within. We look out on mortals, not down on them.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Then why do you protect them?”
“Because I can,” she said”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“No one could help being afraid of something. And being afraid of dying must be especially awful, because there was no hope of avoiding it.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“You're the one who thinks anything that doesn't look like you must be a monster.' 'They have snakes for hair!' Perseus cried. 'Snakes are't monsters,' said Hermes. 'And tusks.' 'Wild boar aren't monsters either.' 'And wings.' 'I'm sure even you don't think birds are monsters.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“He thinks anyone who is not like him is a monster: have you noticed? And any monster needs killing.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“So you're homesick for somewhere you've never been?”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“There's never any real need to say something hurtful unless you can't help it.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“I'm wondering if you still think of her as a monster. I suppose it depends on what you think that word means. Monsters are, what? Ugly? Terrifying? Can a monster be beautiful if it is still terrifying? Perhaps it depends on how you experience fear and judge beauty. And is a monster always evil? Is there ever such a thing as a good monster? Because what happens when a good person becomes a monster?”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Kings and heroes drop like flies, but queens outlive them all.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“How sad it was not to know how happy you were until it was too late.”
― Alison Weir, Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen

“I believe what I choose. I am not as simple as I seem. Now go!”
― Alison Weir, Catherine d'Aragon

“Katherine was shocked. The King's word brought home to her how little he cared about Juana or her mental state. He was only interested in her beauty,her fecundity and the kingdom she would bring him. Katherine supposed that was how most men thought of marriage”
― Alison Weir, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

“She could not blame him,for it was natural that he was concerned about the succession,and every man wanted a boy to carry his line,be he king or yeoman. But Katherine,the daughter of Isabella of Castile, did sometimes wonder why it was seen as essential for a man to rule. Her mother had been a great queen and pray god that Mary would take after her; and thus she herself could see no good reason why Mary should not rule. Yet now was not the time to say that to Henry. That conversation would have to wait on an opportune moment.”
― Alison Weir, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

“It is against my soul,my conscience and my honour. I am your wife,and I have done you no wrong. No judge will be found unjust enough to condemn me! Force me into a nunnery if you will,but you cannot make me say the vows that will free you from our marriage.”
― Alison Weir, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

“Neither the whole kingdom,nor any great punishment,even though I be torn limb from limb,can make me alter my opinion,’ she insisted,her voice becoming impassioned. ‘And if,after death,I should return to life,I would prefer to die all over again rather than change my opinion.”
― Alison Weir, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

“In general, I find that most monsters are made, not born. Perhaps you should remember that next time you encounter one.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“It is human nature to weave our own thread into each story we tell, adding a little piece of ourselves into the narrative.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today. That is something that has taken me a long time to accept.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I watch, outraged yet not entirely surprised, as the same tragedy echoes throughout generations, leaving an endless trail of broken victims and unscathed perpetrators.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor