Citadel Quotes

“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“...the bravest act of war is love.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn't know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“There is an intensity of connection between the living and the dying so powerful that it makes all that has gone before insignificant. The ancients called this gnosis—knowledge—a single moment of enlightenment, dazzling. For an instant all things are clear, the perfect, ineffable pattern revealed in the time between the sighs of a beating heart. Truth and the spirit, the connection between this world and the next.” “He’d been tortured.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“If she wanted to go,’ Bonnet continued, ‘there’s not a thing you – or anyone else – could have done to stop her. If it’s any consolation, she won’t have suffered. Pills, all very peaceful. Just gone to sleep and not woken up. It’s what she chose.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“But things were different when she was on her own. She didn’t have to put a brave face on it.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“Si es atal es atal. What will be will be.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“Sometimes I wish I could look away, like other people seem to be able to do. Not feel it’s my job to put things right.”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel

“But, truthfully, I lacked the courage to jump.’ ‘Perhaps it takes more courage not to,’ Sandrine said,”
― Kate Mosse, Citadel