Eternal Quotes

“War was eternal, but so was peace. Death was eternal, but so was life. Darkness was eternal, but so was light. Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Death was eternal, but so was life.
Darkness was eternal, but so was light.
Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“So every day, before every meal, my question is the same. What can I make with what I have?”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“È facile saper vivere. Grande saper morire. It is easy to know how to live. Heroic to know how to die. —Arrigo Paladini”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“It was a sunny, if chilly, day and Rosa felt relieved to be back on Italian soil. Her heart lifted to see the palm trees lining the Tiber, a sight she had missed in rainy London, and the Thames didn’t compare to this river, pea-green and sun-kissed. She walked down Lungotevere de’ Cenci, passing people on the sidewalk, loving the musical sound of her native tongue and noting the emotionality of her countrymen, who gesticulated as they spoke. She hadn’t realized how different Italians were until she lived in London,”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Life in mourning is like that. We do not have everything we want. We do not have everything we need. We are missing so much. We are missing those we love. Our hearts ache all the time.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“in mourning is like that. We do not have everything we want. We do not have everything we need. We are missing so much. We are missing those we love. Our hearts ache all the time.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Nazis.” His father sipped his wine. “The Nazis aren’t going to let Rome go. This city is the prize. The birthplace of Western Civilization. The home of the Vatican. The Eternal City. Kesselring is an Italophile. He wants to own Rome, possess her. He will try to take her, sooner rather than later.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Years ago, the Unification tried to make us into one Italy. But we didn’t know what that meant. We had no single national identity.” His father met his eye, pained. “Italy had to figure out who she was, and Mussolini told her that she was the greatness that produced Rome. He might have been right, but he lost his way.” Marco”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“the Unification tried to make us into one Italy. But we didn’t know what that meant. We had no single national identity.” His father met his eye, pained. “Italy had to figure out who she was, and Mussolini told her that she was the greatness that produced Rome. He might have been right, but he lost”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“the entrance to the Ghetto and passed the small white church of San Gregorio della Divina Pietà, an ancient church that had significance for Jews, especially poignant now. In the 1500s, the Ghetto Jews had been forced to attend Mass there every Sunday, as part of the campaign to convert them. The church’s ivory façade showed a painting of a crucified Christ, above a biblical inscription intended as a tongue-lashing to Ghetto Jews: “I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices, a people who provoke me to my face continually.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“living in the Ghetto, which was the oldest living Jewish community in Western Civilization. The Community was established nearly two thousand years ago, when Jerusalem had fallen to the Emperor Titus, who had sacked the Temple and brought Jews back to Rome as slaves.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“In time. We’re closest, so we’re on our own. The Nazis are cordoning off the Ghetto. They’re setting up roadblocks at the synagogue, Via del Portico d’Ottavia, Via di Sant’Angelo in Pescheria, Piazza Costaguti, and Piazza Mattei.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“War welcomed and concealed the most heinous of crimes”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“You can’t stay on track when your own government is derailing you”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“My mother thinks my apartment is too big, but I fill it with my ego”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“I know, as a mother, that she would want you to live the life that God gave you. Your survival will be her triumph.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Omnia vincit amor. Love conquers all things. —VIRGIL”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“I say sapore, sapere, to taste is to know.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Her heart felt happy and full, and that was how she learned that love warms the heart when it is given, regardless of whether it is received.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“There have always been anti-Semites, as there have always been fleas. Both are insignificant and brainless, having no purpose other than to torment their betters. I pray that someday we will be rid of them, but until then, we can only bathe. to keep them away.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Marco felt despair, despite the victory. He had believed in Fascism, and they had believed in Nazism. Yet he was alive, and they were dead. There was no difference between him and them. They were all young men who believed in the wrong thing. Marco prayed this was the last war, but he knew it wouldn't be. Men were fallible, and they would always believe in the wrong things. He sensed that he had just learned something that his father had already known, but neither of them spoke.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“of silence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“I love libraries and am their huge supporter, speaking at them and raising funds whenever I can.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“Weak people abound, strong people abide.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“She knew that the Fascists had risen to power via violence.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“The government passed some ‘Race Laws,”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“The Decalogue of the Young Fascist was a set of ten Fascist precepts modeled on the Ten Commandments,”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal