Between Two Worlds Quotes

“If I could have seen on that day how much could change in such a short time, would I have had the courage to go on? Would any of us? Was that why we were forbidden to see into the future? Perhaps that was why life happened in individual days, each one seeming so mundane and yet yielding to the whole, revealing years and events across the course of history, from the dawn of Time until its ending…”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“Sharing thy concerns with someone is never a burden. It is only a burden upon thyself and other people when thou holdest it all in.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“The proud gold of the Redcrest blood interwoven with the pure silver of the ancient Celts—an almost sacred mingling, yet forbidden to coalesce with either of the peoples from which it had sprung.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“And for once, I dared to think of home.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“Voices grew loud in another room and I knew Aurelia would be impatient for my coming.

‘Marcella, please?’

I looked him full in the face and knew, in some strange way, that I could trust him with this. He meant nothing cruel by it; only kindness, as he always did.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“Oh, Marcella!’ Aurelia turned around, her hair, half undone, slipping out of my hands. ‘Dost thou never dream?’

I stared at her, my thoughts racing after each other too fast to be spoken. Of course, I dream. I dream, and I hate to dream. I hate to dream, for I know that it will never be so. Dream away—thou canst afford it, but I have no hope. ’Tis better not to dream at all than to dream with no hope of having.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“I recoiled as if I had been slapped across the face. Was it not enough that they had taken everything from me? Must they also take my name?”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“At the top of the ridge, he let go of my hand and we both paused, panting to catch our breath. I cast my gaze from my beloved home valley to the one with the fields beyond, staring against the sun. Naked forest and grassy moorlands stretched as far as the eye could see, chariot-ways and rivers snaking their meandering way across the landscape to the dim, hazy shadow where hills rose far in the distance and where, some said, was the sea. But Rome had not left even this untamed wilderness untouched; one of their straight roads was partly visible in the rolling sweep of the land, and I fancied that I could see people and horses walking on it.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“A half-forgotten memory surfaced in my mind—a legion marching north, blinding sunlight reflecting off gold armor, endless straight lines of warriors with glittering spears. A mysterious, forbidden fascination had embedded itself in my heart that day, and whenever the infrequent subject of Rome was brought up, I could not help but wonder about those strange people from over the sea.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“The waters of Lethe offer only one passage, and woe to the soul that wishes to return through.

For we can never go back…”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“I am caught between two worlds. There is no place for me in this, and yet I have no choice. I cannot shirk my duty. Cowardice is looked on kindly by neither thy people nor mine.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds

“History is too stark a contrast against what we often romanticize it to be.”
― Cheyenne van Langevelde, Between Two Worlds