Isolde Quotes

“Nothing in this place is sexy," I told him, and he[Dex] laughed.
"Oh, come on, Izzy. Even you, Miss Anti-Romance, can admit there's something just a little bit appealing about making out in a candlelit cave."
"Bats live in caves," I reminded him. "And where there are bats, There's bat poop. Lot's of it. Did you know there's a cave in Mexico where they have a whole mountain made out guano?”
― Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits

“This girl is good at voices. She actually wanted to be Isolde, because Isolde has a better part and this girl is pale and stringy and rumpled and always looks slightly alarmed, which are qualities that don’t quite fit Isolde, and so she plays Bridget instead. In truth it is her longing to be an Isolde that most characterises her as a Bridget: Bridget is always wanting to be somebody else.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal

“My mother looked at me then, with something in her eyes I’d never seen before. A reverence. As if something marvelous and at the same time harrowing had just happened. She blinked, pulling me between her and Saint, and I burrowed in, their warmth instantly making me feel like a child again.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“Words do not heal trauma," she said.
"Then tell me how I heal this."
"You don't. You love me through the fear, even when my doubt hurts, and I will do the same for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, Queen of Myth and Monsters

“Kochankowie nie mogli żyć ani umrzeć jedno bez drugiego. W rozłączeniu nie było to życie ani śmierć, ale i życie, i śmierć razem.”
― Dzieje Tristana i Izoldy