Amanda Rautio > Amanda's Quotes

“All I have deduced thus far,” I say wearily, “is that it is not ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ By Rick Astley.”
― Amanda L. Rautio, The Tale of Kore

“Harbinger of Destruction.”
I had never understood why I’d been called that. I am an advocate for souls, not someone with vindictive malice. It is a moniker wholly unearned… until now.”
― Amanda L. Rautio, The Tale of Kore

“What place is worse than Tartarus?”
“The Prison of Cronus.”
― Amanda L. Rautio, The Tale of Kore

“Captured in his embrace, his lips on my throat and jaw, I fight the guilt rising inside me as he speaks of forever.”
― Amanda L. Rautio, The Tale of Kore

“I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness; 3. Naturalism; 4. Grotesqueness; 5. Rigidity; 6. Redundance.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
― John Ruskin

“The best work never was and never will be done for money.”
― - John Ruskin