Celeste Bradley Quotes

#1. Throb
You cut me
into pieces and
put them in separate corners
of the room
each part
placed under pillows
or into water
I grow from this darkness
like starfish
my fingers know the shape to take again

Kathleen Norris

#2. Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.

Celeste Bradley

#3. Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.

Celeste Bradley

#4. At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

Paul Pierce

#5. We ought to talk. Had four words ever put more fear into the heart of men around the world? He'd not heard them before himself, but ancient gender memory recognized them well. He was in for it now.

Celeste Bradley

#6. Love was not a drink one tasted and then rejected. Love was not something that could be avoided or arranged. Love was a highwayman, standing by the road of life, just waiting to strike at the reckless and the few.

Celeste Bradley

#7. Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever.

Celeste Bradley

#8. I have carried that ring every moment of the last twelve years. I bought it the day after I first saw you at the ball. The ruby reminded me of the rose gleaming in your black hair."
~Lord Malcom Ashford

Celeste Bradley

#9. I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

Michael Shannon

#10. I wish you always the joyous summer you deserve and blame you not for fleeing the stark winter you saw in me.
-Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham (in his letter to Lady Alicia)

Celeste Bradley

#11. Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.

Nenia Campbell

#12. The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west. "It

Lev Grossman

#13. A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

Celeste Bradley

#14. You are the end, and the beginning.
...
When I die, my only regret will be that you could
never reside in my heart to hear how it sings
when you touch me.

Celeste Bradley

#15. Of happiness the chiefest part
IS a wise heart

Sophocles

#16. It was I who was conquered. In just seven nights, that fledgling goddess not only discovered that I had a heart, but she stole it forever, then cradled it in the palm of her hand.

Celeste Bradley

#17. I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will be well in the end.

Celeste Bradley

#18. I'm terribly human.

Rickie Lee Jones

#19. Together, we soar.

Celeste Bradley