The Confessions Quotes

“Penance? You? His lover? My dear Eleanor—you love a priest. The sin itself carries its own penance.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“Love is never a sin. If it’s a sin it’s not love. And if it’s love it’s not a sin.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions

“You know, a wise man once said, ‘Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap.’ ” “Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap,” she repeated. “Sounds like St. Ignatius.” “Jerry Seinfeld actually.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions

“You must drive him mad, Stuart thought. You must make him wild for you. You are a teenage girl in a woman’s body with a woman’s needs and a teenage girl’s savage heart.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions

“What isn’t a risk? Birth comes with a death sentence. Every breath I take could be my last.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions

“What do you see in her?” “She…she makes me laugh. I feel human with her. I don’t feel human very often, but I do with her.” “You are human.” “If I wasn’t sure I was human before, I am now. She makes me weak.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“It’s called the sacrament of reconciliation, not the sacrament of interrogation.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“No flirting, wicked girl. I know I’m your type.” “I can’t help it,” she said. “I spread for Roman collars. What”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“Penance?” Marcus asked. “No penance.” Ballard gave him a sad and knowing smile. “Something tells me that loving your Eleanor will be penance enough.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“Sadistic is the word for it. God in the Old Testament wasn’t anyone’s pal.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“And I just sat there eating my pasta and thinking, “Please don’t ask me what I do please don’t ask me what I do...”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“But five minutes later the five-hundred-year-old Roman chapel was filled to the rafters with the soaring sounds of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen

“It’s medieval,” Marcus said. “You might as well walk down the street in a suit of armor.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Confessions: Companion to The Queen