Irene Quotes

“The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. "Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon."

"Your blood," the ambassador pointed out.

Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said. He seemed lost in memory. The room was quiet.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is."

The King didn't sound frightened.

"Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--"
As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

“Me pregunto que hubiera hecho Irene sin el tejido. Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pullover está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.”
― Julio Cortázar, Bestiario

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them. Even if he doesn't come back, even if he gets lost in the snow or is hit by a stray bullet, she'll wait for him.”
― Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude

“I just want the feeling that I'm safe, the feeling that things can work out and that there'll be a happy ending someday.”
― Nadia Simonenko, Chasing Wishes

“It would be better if it did break, better than living with wanting and not having, better than living itself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“And still it felt like they were losing this fight”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“Because no one was immune to tragedy.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“and she told me self-portraits aren't really about faces but what's going on behind the faces.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“… not because she’d wasted herself on them but because he didn’t see how any of them could be more powerful than her simple being.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City