Asteria > Asteria's Quotes

“My passion amused her. She made fun of me, played with me, and tormented me. It is sweet to be the sole source, the arbitrary and irresponsible source of the greatest joys and profoundest miseries to someone else.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
― T.S Elliot

“After all I am not so violently bent upon my own Opinion, as to reject any Offer, proposed by wise Men, which shall be found equally Innocent, Cheap, Easy and Effectual.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

“To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”
― T.S. Eliot

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― Albert Einstein

“But it is not mine to give, nor yours to take.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“A man was speaking, so I stopped listening.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“The romance books I’d loved to read growing up had made men sound way less dramatic than they really were. Highly upsetting and unfortunate for women everywhere.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Let's Face It, I Am Hotter Than You.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems