City of Time and Magic Quotes

“For time is a jealous mistress and will have her due. We all of us will know that reckoning. What we cannot know is when that day will come.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic

“You have the most glorious hair of anyone I’ve ever met,” he told her softly. “And you are so damn beautiful. Have I said that before?” “You have mentioned it.” “Good. You should be told. I want to tell you. I’ve wanted to tell you lots of things for a long time.” “How long?” she asked, enjoying the feel of his fingers combing lightly through her hair. “If we’re allowed to count backward as well as forward, several centuries.” “That is a long time.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic

“In my experience, though true love may smoulder for a lifetime, it has its beginning in a spark. And a spark exists in the quickest of instances. Its brightness cannot be mistaken for anything else.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic

“There is no courage in being fearless. To know fear and yet act, well, there is bravery.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic

“It’s strange how we romanticize the past but get caught up in only seeing the bad stuff in our own time. Like how much inequality there is, how divided people feel, how much we are all wrecking the planet. It’s easy to forget the good things.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic

“There are some who are chosen for a higher purpose because of their strengths and talents. Others fall into their place in the world through events and circumstances not of their own making. Yet others move from one way of being to another and in doing so fulfill a potential the like of which they could not have dreamed. It matters not how we come to be who we are. What matters is how we proceed from that point of awakening.”
― Paula Brackston, City of Time and Magic