The Bloodletter's Daughter Quotes

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Men who thirst for freedom will find it, even if they drink at a poisoned well.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Declare not what you are, not what you have to be, but what you want to be.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar. Your name has great power, did you know that?”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“If you settle for despair, there is nothing I or anyone else can do to help you.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“hear the not-so-distant”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“It is a marvelous thing to be out of control,” Don Julius whispered, his voice hoarse. “Do not forget that. I await the moment when we can finish what we started, Marketa.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“I choose to recognize the message,” he said. “You are my savior—the only being on earth who can help me.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Emperor Maximillian had brought peace to the kingdoms of Moravia, Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary. Though he had no time for his many children, he had found time to cultivate tulips in his beloved hrad gardens in the city of Prague.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Love risks all, fears nothing! Do”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“My father says it is the peacemakers who take the biggest risks. He says any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Extreme melancholy. I cannot bear to leave my bed or venture beyond the threshold of my house. I do not care whether I live or die.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“There is a force in our sun, a force in our planets. Each follows its own course, but each is inextricably bound to every other.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“delight”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Despite the opinions of others, despite her own fears, she raised her chin and proceeded through life with a directness that startled those who did not know her well.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“as the rancid, smoking fat of the candle spread”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Karlovy Vary in the west and the wet, pine-studded mountains of the eastern Polish”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“What a knack for secrecy and stealth, thought Marketa. Was it Jesuit training or his Spanish blood that allowed him to blend into the shadows and move invisibly? If he were not a priest, she would guess him a sorcerer or a thief.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Every clergyman who holds a title, be it bishop, cardinal, or pope, is a politician.” Klesl nodded in the dim light. He grimaced, then squared his shoulders and answered.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“We must break his will, then,” the abbot said. “For the good of his soul and the soul of the Hapsburg Empire, we must bring him to God. Only God can cure his infirmity and mind.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Juana La Loca, had kept the dead body of her consort with her for years, caressing and sleeping with the decomposing corpse.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“It had long been assumed by the European royal courts that Emperor Rudolf’s own mental failings—bouts of melancholy and fits of temper—were a direct inheritance from his great-grandmother, Juana La Loca of Spain, the maddest perhaps of all the Hapsburgs.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“it is the peacemakers who take the biggest risks. He says any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“The Church always got in the way of science, fettering progress, scowling at new knowledge. And Jesuits were the worst.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“wheedling.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“that crawled into the marrow, chilling the bones of all Bohemia.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“You may howl like dogs at the moon, but the moonlight will not change its color.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“If you listen with your heart and pure soul, you will hear the music of the cosmos, in perfect harmony. It is only the sins and arrogance of man that obscure the sound.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter