Lent Quotes

“Consider Augustus’s motto. Hurry more slowly.”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“Or have you ever known someone for a long time, and fallen into a bad pattern with them so that you’re always quarrelling? So that no matter how good your intentions are, no matter that you’ve prayed to do better, when you start to talk to them you hear everything they say as malicious, and they do the same with you, so you can’t even say good morning without them saying sarcastically that it might be good for some people?”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“Angelo, beds are for sleeping, chairs are for sitting, tables are for piling books.'
'All flat surfaces are for piling books.' Angelo says”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“You have sinned with women?” Girolamo asks, gently. “No, with men,” he says.”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“...I can see the beauty of the world - a weed growing out of a crack, a sunrise, the glory of art.' He takes comfort in even the grain of wood in the arms of the chair, the gentle coarseness of the linen weave of his shirt, the dust motes dancing in the beam of sunlight, the smell of Marsilio's fresh bread.”
― Jo Walton, Lent

“Piero is only twenty years old, but is married already to a Roman aristocrat, an Orsini like his mother. People say he thought himself too good for Florence. When you think you are too good to marry your neighbors, you start expecting them to be your servants.”
― Jo Walton, Lent