Babylonia Quotes

“Women are at war every day of their lives because they’re expendable,”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Lonely souls rarely find each other, but when they do, they aren’t meant to part.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“But happiness is a liar, for it makes us believe it will last forever, when it never does.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“When she was a child, it was her greatest wish to have someone who loved her so much that he would protect her from any danger. But life wasn’t kind to her, so she became that person for herself.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“People usually believe that wisdom and knowledge can be learned, but people are fools. It is strength that can be learned. One either has understanding or one doesn’t.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Semiramis does not pray. She looks at the sky and makes promises. She promises she will be bold and fearless. As luminous as a star and as raging as a lion.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“I will marry you,” she says. Around them, the sun meets the land, coloring the sky with a thousand shades. Thus my old life dies, she thinks. Let a new one be born.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“You can’t give a man the feeling of being understood, then snatch it away from him: he’ll spend the rest of his life searching.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Things that are lost aren't meant to be found again. We must let them go.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“She knows that she cannot mend him, for she has never managed to mend herself. But isn’t it always easier when the pain is someone else’s?”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“it is dark, the palace sleeps, and the night belongs to the slaves. A momentary change in the order of things. The seeds of freedom, bursting from the earth before they are buried again.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“You have come here with hopes, Semiramis, I am sure of it,” she says. “But hopes are not so different from dreams: both are as far from real life as the house of dust is from the world of the living.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“You are wise or a fool. I often find it hard to tell the difference.” “Wise men live. Fools die,”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“She wonders if he is truly warning her, and if he is, why he would do such a thing. “You haven’t been stabbed yet.” He lifts a dark, fine brow. “I understand the way the game is played.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Her glowing future unfolds, but she never forgets her past. It is written on her skin, and to cut it away would mean losing a part of herself. A part that, no matter how much she denies it, will always be there.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“She listens to make sense of this world, to give it a shape so she can inhabit it.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“like sheep… My prancing steeds plunged into their welling blood as into a river; the wheels of battle chariots were bespattered with blood and filth. I filled the plain with corpses of their warriors like herbage.” These are some of the lines that inspired the scene”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“They are close, two people who have avoided intimacy all their lives. A man made of coldness and a girl who slips into the shadows like a thief.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“In this world of fiddlers, he needed an ally. I will be that and much more.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“The hammer shatters glass but forges steel. I’ve known a lot of men in my life who are glass. But you are different.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“The woman arrayed in purple and gold, with a cup in her hand full of lust and faults, will be as great as Babylon, the glowing city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Common people are always unkind to those who are different. They insult them because they do not understand them.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“You have never been at war, Mother,” Ninus says. “Women are at war every day of their lives because they’re expendable,” she says.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Power changes men, and not for the better or kings and soldiers wouldn’t be so merciless.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Excitement blossoms inside her, like a tree in spring. A change is coming, and while every other villager might be scared of it, to her it tastes like hope.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“He learned long ago that his family only understands the language of strength. And for those who can’t speak it, there is no other option than to learn it.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Weakness and lack of cruelty aren’t the same thing.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“When darkness eats the soul, men don’t look like men anymore. Their screaming faces don’t look like they belong to warriors. It is all mud and dirt, fire and pain, until one forgets what the world was like before.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“When she was younger, she thought that the blood of kings and governors must be gold, for they are a different kind, closer to the gods and constellations. But the drops that fall copiously from the governor’s chest are red. No different from her own.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Can we grasp the instant when our fate turns? Or can we understand it only later, once the moment grows into a memory?”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia