Of Blood and Bone Quotes

“Love has no end, no borders, no limits. The more you give, the more there is.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“A leader’s who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren’t any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader’s the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it’s the damn dishes.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Madmen claimed God in their vicious righteousness, stirring fear and hate to build their own armies to purge what was “other.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Oppenheimer was right: ‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Love isn’t finite, Fallon. If you take nothing else from me, take that.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“without control, my power, my strength, my feelings are a weakness.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III CHAPTER SIXTEEN Hands on Fallon’s shoulders, Eddie drew back, his eyes damp as he studied her face.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Orelana,”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“They broke his mind instead, and that’s dangerous”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“A broken spirit is more debilitating than a broken body.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“propolis.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“When the ritual was done, they left some of the cake for the birds, poured some of the wine on the ground for the goddess.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Yule, lit the fires, the candles to represent the return of light after the darkest night of the winter solstice. She made and hung the wreath, the symbol of the Wheel of the Year.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“white horse”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Even the dead have questions.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“sabbat.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“bolline,”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“athame,”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“when the shield broke and the Doom killed billions, some people who thought they were just regular people found their magicks. So people would believe again?” “Faith is a sword and a shield, as long as one bolsters it with courage and brains and muscle.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“One by one, shield by shield? More would die, infected by a madness, crops would fail until they burned in the field, withered on the vine, rotted in the earth. So famine follows. And a plague runs through the animals. Fish and fowl, mammal. Only what slithers and crawls remains. And the rivers and streams, the lakes and oceans bloated with blood and death and rot become tainted even as they rise up in a flood to spread their poison.” Already pale, she lost more color as he spoke. But the question deserved a full and true answer. “And a great heat bakes the earth, burns the trees with lightning striking down forests. The world is fire and smoke. Then the dark descends, and the slaughter of all who remain begins. The ground will shake and split, and what rules the dark rules all.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Your spirit is yours as mine is mine. What you feel and know are yours and will never be a mirror exact of another’s. But respect for the spirit and the light, understanding of the dark, must be. And that’s shown in the tradition of ritual, in its words, its symbols, its tributes. “Your power doesn’t come from a void, girl. There is a source for the light, for all we are, for the air we breathe, the earth we stand on. Life is a gift, even to a blade of grass, and must be honored. We have been given more, and must honor the gift and the giver.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Then she remembered what her mother called heart-sleep. That sleep a wounded heart needed to help it heal. She rubbed the ring and medal between her fingers.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“you can’t fix stupid.’ It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Your ignorance does you no credit.” He walked onto the porch, flicked a hand at the door. It opened with a rush of wind. “Do you think power—the light, the dark—has no source? Has no history or purpose? You owe what you are to all who came before you. To their bounty and their battles, their cruelty and their compassion.” He shook his head.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“That the fate of the world rests with a girl who knows so little.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Be afraid of what rules them. Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. —Ralph Waldo Emerson PROLOGUE”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone