Did you know that a witch’s blood makes music? Like a siren who sings to the sailor, asking him to steer his ship into the rocks, the call of your blood could be my undoing-and yours.
In every ending there is a new beginning.
Nightmares are like Master Harriot’s star glass. They are a trick of the light, one that makes something distant seem closer and larger than it really is.” “Oh.” Jack considered Matthew’s response. “So even if I see a monster in my dreams, it cannot reach me?” Matthew nodded. “But I will tell you a secret. A dream is a nightmare in reverse. If you dream of someone you love, that person will seem closer, even if far away.
Decide what to do to survive, and do it.
We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna,” Goody Alsop remarked.
One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party,” said Rabbi Loew.
Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
I cannot shield you from the challenges you will face. You will know great loss and danger, but also great joy. You may doubt your instincts in the years to come, but your feet have been walking this path since the moment you were born.
I watched in silence as the parts of Matthew I knew and loved – the poet and the scientist, the warrior and the spy, the Renaissance prince and the father – fell away until only the darkest, most forbidding part of him remained. He was only the assassin now. But he was still the man I loved.
No wonder Philippe always looked so exhausted,” he said ruefully when he was through. “It’s very fatiguing pretending you’re in charge when your wife actually rules the roost.
It’s doubtful we’re the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won’t be the last.
Einstein said that all physicists were aware that the distinctions between past, present, and future were only what he called ‘a stubbornly persistent illusion.’ Not only did he believe in marvels and wonders, he also believed in the elasticity of time.
Rebecca asked me what made the most lasting impression on children. I told her it was the stories their parents read to them at night, and all the messages about hope and strength and love that were embedded in them.
Be careful, daughter... You are a creature of the crossroads, neither here nor there. ‘Tis a dangerous place to be.
To every question I have ever had, or ever will have, you are the answer.
Do you wonder what it would be like for me to taste you?
Some promises matter more than others.
If you’re angry with me, say it. If I’ve done something you don’t like, tell me. If you want to end this marriage, have the courage to end it cleanly so that I might – might – be able to recover from it. Because if you keep looking at me as though you wish we weren’t married, you’re going to destroy me.
Stop trying to be perfect. Try being real for a change.
Ysabeau wanted me to know she approved of you. Like the gold from which it is made, you are steadfast. You hide many secrets within you, just as the bands of the ring hide the poesies from view. But it is the stone that best captures who you are: bright on the surface, fiery within, and impossible to break.