The Legend of Sheba Quotes

“A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“How is one statute against murder or rape or theft different from any other?” I said, though my mind had careened into a hundred different questions. “They are different in that they come from a god who says we are to show honor of him by honoring others. And so as we feed our hungry neighbor and do not steal from him we honor not our neighbor, but the image of the One who fashioned him. You say our god has no face. This is not true. Yaweh’s face is before us in every person we see, as we are made in his image. Living people who require more kindness and adoration than any idol.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“understanding. Do we wish our children to do as they are told forever, simply because we told them what they should do, or because they fear punishment? Or do we hope that they grow in understanding to discern for themselves and freely choose right?”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“our love is proved when we love those who are not beautiful, who wound with word or deed. When we love not out of pity, or even for their sakes, but for our own. And here is the secret: they do not wound us, as Yaweh does not wound us. We wound ourselves by allowing the offense. And so Yaweh commands forgiveness for our own healing. Because in honoring ourselves—and others as ourselves—we please and honor Yaweh, who looks not on what a person does, but on the heart.” I”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“What is love, but to hold dear without expectation? What is love, but first given devotion? What is love . . . But freedom.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our power when we are strong enough to survive it. The priests have no tolerance for those of us driven by the divine madness of questions. And so our stories are blackend from the fire of righteous indignation by those who envy our imagined fornications. We become temptresses, harlots, and heretics.
I have been all and none of these, depending on who tells the tale.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Postanowiłam, że zadam jej te pytania. Później. Jutro... Ale kiedy stałam na tarasie tamtego wieczoru, zdałam sobie sprawę z tego, że odpowiedzi Shary niczego nie zmienią”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Hagarlat... Która nigdy nie żałowała mu nałożnic - tylko po to, by zabezpieczyć sobie jego względy. Która nie cofała się przed niszczeniem innych, jeśli służyło to jej celom”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“... tak naprawdę jesteś jak zwierzę we wnykach, niezdolne zwrócić się ani w jedną, ani w drugą stronę”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“...cenił każdą chwilę, w której niczego od niego nie chciałam... Musiałam prowadzić negocjacje bez negocjacji, prosić, nie wypowiadając tego na głos!”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Nie chciał... kobiety, która nie kryła w sobie żadnej tajemnicy”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Któż to wie, do czego człowiek jest zdolny w imię jakiegokolwiek boga?”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Do tej pory skupiałam się na byciu słyszaną. Naprawię ten błąd. Teraz. Dzisiaj. I każdego dnia do czasu, aż wrócę do Saby ze statkami w garści”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Chciał czegoś, co mógłby czcić”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“...więcej osiągniesz za sprawą prowokacji niż pochlebstwa”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“...każdy dwór jest jak morze: gładki i niebieski na powierzchni, w głębi zaś pełen potworów, pragnących jedynie pożreć się nawzajem”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Tylko demony kuszą słodkimi słówkami. Tylko demony mogą doprowadzać do szaleństwa, wykorzystując przeciwko człowiekowi jego ukryte tęsknoty”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Ośmieliłam się mieć nadzieję. Oto mój największy grzech”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“I thought of you when I read this quote from "The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen" by Tosca Lee -

"Whatever the reason, I wonder now if they take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence. Why? Why? I ask it day and night!”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“I had sought love. I had talked of love, not knowing that it is one step beyond wisdom into the face of God. And this was the only salvation.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“have begun to despair that even love is like this. That it is all and only the transaction of agreement. ‘I will love you if you please me.’ ‘I will love you if you desire no other.’ ‘I will love you if . . .’ and so on and so on.” I said it, because it was true.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen