Immortality Quotes

“There are always women behind the scenes, pulling the strings, Hazel. We are invisible to history, but we also survive.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“She had gotten love, and that was more than plenty of people got on this planet.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Live long enough and the past becomes an endless parade of mistakes and things that might have been done better or differently. What can we do but continue on, and try again?”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“From a raging fire that threatened to turn Hazel’s world to ash, the longing instead dampened to a small flame, a flickering candle visible only in the corner of her eyes. You can’t speak to him now, but he’s there if you need him, the candle said. He’s just there, only just out of view. That was the real way she survived losing Jack: by pretending that she hadn’t lost him at all, and that at any moment she might walk up to the big house and see him smiling up at her over tea, see the way his canine teeth extended past the others and overlapped, see his messy hair, which had always contained a hidden pocket of sawdust.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“I believe you shall do great things." He said it like he said almost everything, just a statement of fact.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“You will always have to watch people you love die,” Marie-Anne said. “Do you think mortality protects you from that?”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Will you still love me even if all of England despises me?" Hazel said.
"We're Scots, Hazel," Jack said, a smile extending across his face. "If England hates you, we can hate them right back.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Is anyone actually happy?" Hazel asked.
"People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exception.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“I can survive a hanging and a stabbing and shipwreck and starvation. And I still wouldn't dare to do anything as foolish as standing up Hazel Sinnett.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“the house could be lonely. But loneliness, like frost, usually melted in the morning sun.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Your success is their success, and your failure their failure.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“That’s the thing about this sort of thing: a sharp bit of hurt now to save a lot of hurt adding up over time.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Every woman marries into obsolescence. The things that make us celebrated as young women-being charming, coquettish, and being clever? In a married woman and mother all of that becomes desperate and embarassing.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Hope was a dangerous thing. Most of the pain in the world, Jack had learned, was because of hope.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Affection was poisoning her, taking over her brain and her thoughts like a growing weed.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Your success is their success, and your failure their failure. You are greater than yourself now. It's not fair to be a symbol, Miss Sinnett, when it is so much easier to be a person.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“He fell in love with her half coated in mud, exhausted and blood splattered. In another universe, they would be able to go hand in hand to a dinner party, with nothing to worry about and no nightmare chasing them.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Godlike power had reduced humanity to a game for them. It had made them cruel. Hazel promised herself, as she sat against that door, that her mission as a doctor would always be to help people.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Blond hair was for toddlers with rosy cheeks, not tall, broad-chested men with unidentifiable accents who made Hazel's mouth go dry when they stepped closer to her.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Go back! I have a household to run. A medical practice. My treatise! I’ve been working on a treatise—a sort of manual of medicine and anatomy, and my papers will be all over my laboratory.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Royal Court might be a friendlier prison, but it is a prison all the same.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“During the Revolution,” she explained. “A brilliant mind made to roll through the filthy streets. Power might belong in the hands of the people, Miss Sinnett, but that doesn’t mean mobs are always wise. People need leaders. Good men like Mr. Lewis here.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“She had always been an independent child. By virtue of an absent father and a mother who disappeared into herself, from a young age Hazel felt, perhaps naïvely, that she was responsible for herself and her own circumstances.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story