The Price of Happiness Quotes

“One should be worthy of the memory of one’s descendants, as well as one’s ancestors. One should always remain a good person. No matter where life takes you, no matter how hard and curious it gets, you need to remain a worthy person, even if it goes against your own wish.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Even the strongest man needed a place where he could rest. Even the strongest woman needed the knowledge that she was not alone, that she had a strong shoulder to lean on.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Those who seek revenge are the first ones to die.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Her own experience showed that those in power seldom sided with justice.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“She could construct a compass in no time. She needed a needle, a cup of water, and a cork that floated on the surface. She would heat a needle from one end in order to demagnetize it, put it on the cork and place them inside the cup filled with water. The heated end of the needle would point south.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Killing was certainly easier than curing; it required want, not brains.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“All villains always blamed others for their own faults.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“She was a woman, not a workhorse.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Maybe it was love. No one could say if it was a creative or a destructive feeling.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“There were many kinds of love. There were many couples who nourished their love with friendship. Hundreds of couples first married and only afterward, took notice of looks, learned how to trust each other and how to organize house chores. Such families ended up happier than the couples who were insanely in love.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“God, how I hate death. It knew no time, no reason, no mercy, and took away the closest people to unknown faraway places. Whatever the Bible said about death, Lily didn’t believe that the dead departed to a better place. She wasn’t going to sit back and watch them depart to that better world. She wanted to fight. She viciously fought for every patient’s life. Sometimes hopelessly, but she continued the fight until the end.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Women could become friends if they have no self-interest.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“If a person is continuously told that she is a slug, for example, it will eventually push her to prove otherwise and roar with all her might.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Sometimes I feel sorry for your Aldonai. Our gods divide responsibility between each other, but yours has to do it all alone. It must be hard for him.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Providence is only our foresight and our actions. We create our own destiny.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Do you think that cruelty is the privilege of kings?The old servant wasn't surprised.
“I think it is the main trouble of all kings, My Lady.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Life does not always allow us to remain human.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“often faded when it came to money, fame, or power. That was the case with Falion.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Lily was no longer trying to speed up progress. This new world was more tolerant of novelties, and the church tried to cooperate. She would leave new knowledge in the hands of the aldons, except for medicine. Technical progress shouldn't be ahead of ethics and morality. Inventing the telescope would mean the discovery of bacteria and lead to someone coming up with biological weapons. As long as there were wars, people would try to invent weapons.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“If one state got used to living at the expense of the other, the inevitable result would be their fall.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Ladies seek love and gentlemen do business.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“There were things over which men had no power.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“The crown was a terrible burden. Wearing it demanded the king to commit to terrifying things. Such a life was painful and frightening”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Kings weren’t ordinary humans. They couldn't afford to get revenge, be happy, love, and hate.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Any sex, any love affair has to happen outside of work, the hospital or the factory, even if your office is a hut in the tundra. Otherwise, you risk creating an impression that any man can ash his cigarette in your ashtray.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“I also loved Jyce. But I don’t have corpses around me. There is a line that one mustn’t cross. Otherwise, the fire would consume them. Those who seek revenge are the first ones to die.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“The king had to buy out the lives of many thousands with his own pain. How easy it was to judge when one didn’t have any responsibility.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“It wasn't natural for a person to admit that others might be smarter.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“Every crime leaves a financial footprint”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness

“The eternal feminine desire to take everyone under her wing had no place in the Middle Ages.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Price of Happiness