I, Coriander Quotes

“Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I did not. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been alright?”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“I got through so much ink in the learning that the inkseller took to knocking at least once a week on the garden door. He had a gray solemn face that looked as if it was chiseled out of stone; he was stooped down like the letter C, as if he were Atlas carrying the weight of the world in his wooden barrel of ink. Maybe he did. I have learned that there is great power in words, no matter how long or short they be.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“The world we live in is nothing more than a mirror that reflects another world below its silvery surface, a land where time is but a small and unimportant thing, stripped of all its power.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Il mondo in cui viviamo non è altro che uno specchio che riflette un mondo nascosto sotto la sua superficie argentea, un paese dove il tempo è solo un dettaglio insignificante, senza nessun potere.
Spero di ritrovarti là.”
― Sally Gardner, La figlia del mercante di seta

“Furniture, my good husband," she said, her mouth full of food, "that be too pretty is without pure thought. Tables with turned and carved legs only encourage the devil to dine."

My father stared at her, bewildered.

This house needs to be made ready for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, for when he returns to our fair city and takes his rightful place as king, he'll be needing a good meal in a godly home. Do not you agree, husband?"

My father was speechless. Maud, in no way put off by his silence, said, "He will be very hungry. It has been a long time since the Last Supper.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“I wish I could unpick the stitches of time that have become all tangled and twisted together.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“We live to die, we die to eternally live.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Je hebt het hart van een leeuw, Coriander. Je bent dapper genoeg om de kamer van de koningin binnen te gaan, flink genoeg om een wit ros te aaien, niet te bang om een prins te redden.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Hoe heet ik?' vroeg ik.
'An,' zei hij.
De kaaiman sperde zijn bek open. Zijn tanden, scherp als dolken, glommen in het maanlicht.
'Hoe heet ik?' herhaalde ik.
'Coriander,' gilde Arise.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn allemaal gelukkige. Dat was voordat ik erachter kwam dat het mijn lot was om in een kast opgesloten te worden om daar te sterven.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Ik heb geleerd dat er een grote macht in woorden schuilt, hoe lang of kort ze ook zijn.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Wij zijn slechts schimmen die korte tijd mogen dansen in het licht.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“And so the first part of my tale is told, and with it a candle goes out.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“I have learnt that there is great power in words, no matter how long or short they be.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“All these questions and many more besides only occurred to me much, much later when there was no one left to ask.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“I like him to sleep close to me. Danes says it is better than leaving him alone in a cradle to get too cold or too hot. Mistress Bedwell does not agree. She says that I should have a wet nurse and not hold him all the time, for it indulges him so."
I laughed. "What nonsense!"
Hester looked pleased. "It feels right, him being next to me."
"Hester, do what you feel is best. Take no notice of Patience Bedwell.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“Cos'altro possono togliermi? Dovunque io vada mi porto dietro il mio inferno.”
― Sally Gardner, La figlia del mercante di seta