Janell Rhiannon > Janell's Quotes

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Invisible Wings

“Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall”
― Homer, The Iliad

“...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“We men are wretched things.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“She must be strong enough to hold the memory of her husband, to sing his song in her heart until she joined him in the Underworld.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“We all make war, but not all can bring forth life.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“No sacrifice is without pain.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes