Inamorata Quotes

“Glitterdust across a broad expanse of blue. Before me, the water unfurled like dark swaths of shadowed silk, colors muted, reflections cast by the lamps hanging from the prows of the gondolas rippling, and my heart swelled at the beauty and the romance of it.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Yes, she was his angel. But can’t you guess, my love? She was his demon too.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Strange, don’t you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Joseph and I arrived at Edward’s”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“There is no meaning. Only balance. Only symmetry.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“We do not stay as we were born, none of us.” I poured a glass of wine. “We are all made. And this—what I am—was nothing but one more choice in a sea of choices.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Joseph wore uncertainty poorly; it seemed to somehow misshape him. I heard in it everything he hid from the world, his own sense of worthlessness, the fear behind his ego.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“A man I knew once told me that freckles were a map for kissing. A path to pleasure.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“music told me that whatever else had been taken from me, my soul remained.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“every melody and harmony felt part of some vast universe that belonged not just to man, but to every other creature—worldly and otherworldly.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“She was Venice personified, with her immortal agelessness and her beautiful, mysterious eyes that promised deliverance and salvation, her mouth that had spoken a hundred promises. All of them lies.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“It was useless, as pointless as it ever was. “She’s a succubus, you fool.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“It was my favorite characteristic of musicians. They were competitive and jealous, but unlike poets or writers or painters, musicians borrowed and built upon old foundations and acknowledged the genius of before. They used it. One discovered, and others embraced, embroidered, and embellished, twisting and shaping it into something that was quite their own, even as it held echoes of the past. In this way, every melody and harmony felt part of some vast universe that belonged not just to man, but to every other creature—worldly and otherworldly.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“It was my favorite characteristic of musicians. They were competitive and jealous, but unlike poets or writers or painters, musicians borrowed and built upon old foundations and acknowledged the genius of before. They used it. One discovered, and others embraced, embroidered, and embellished, twisting and shaping it into something that was quite their own, even as it held echoes of the past.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Some memories fade to tender nostalgia, and some fade altogether,”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“If there was a family in the world to which I did not belong, it was my own.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I’ll never think of those places the same way again.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“It wasn’t just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each one, so that my head had been filled with images so magically vibrant it was as if I had seen them with my own eyes. She changed the world into something fine. She made one believe.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“They don’t actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might change the future. Where its influence might end—if it ever did—was a mystery. I had spent lifetimes watching the effects of my choices, and so I knew that Joseph Hannigan was meant to be the very best of them. The world had put him into my hands; I could only guess at its design. But I knew he”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. “Would you have”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Snakes have many forms, you know. They have not always been evil or poisonous - or at least, not only so. Just as desire has not always been evil. In ancient times, snakes were a symbol of healing. Of wisdom. They can be very beautiful.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“The sunsets here in Venice are more intensely colored than they have ever been. Do you know why?"

"Why?" His voice was very quiet.

"Because of the smoke from the mirror and glass factories. There were only craftsmen before, not such manufacture. There was never such smoke. It's strange, don't you think, that something that so befouls the air can be so beautiful?"

"Beauty from ugliness," he mused wistfully. "No. I don't think it strange at all.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Few men ever wonder such things. They are the center of the world, after all. But women are not so different in what they want. They are used to hiding their desires and dissembling, that is all. No woman is ever quite as she appears.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on fatal quests or led them to begin senseless wars? What else led to thievery or murder? It wasn't desire that was the enemy, but the inability to assuage it. Desire was only an emotion. It was no more evil than love.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Truth has a way of speaking, of sneaking in beyond fear or dread.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata