Top 100 Luce Quotes
#1. You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.
Alan Bradley
#2. Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.
Charles Frazier
#3. Daniel murmured something like yes, he wouldn't miss it,but he was clearly distracted. He kept looking away from the woman. His eyes darted around the lawn, as if he sensed Luce behind the roses.
When his gaze swept over the bushes where she crouched,they flashed the most intense shade of violet.
Lauren Kate
#4. After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.
Lauren Kate
#5. As a proponent of big-picture analysis, media pioneer and Time founder Henry Luce asserted, there was more money to be made in slow news than fast news.
David Halberstam
#6. [On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
Dorothy Parker
#7. There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce's repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing
Lauren Kate
#8. Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#9. O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#10. It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Lauren Kate
#12. [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
#13. Luce,' she says, 'I don't want my diary entry tomorrow to be: Stayed out all night. Went to prison. I have this urge to go home and watch TV with my parents and be completely boring.
Cath Crowley
#14. Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.
Lauren Kate
#15. Jealous?' Luce asked. They were alone now. She threw her arms around his broad shoulders and looked deep into his violet eyes. 'Why would you be jealous?'
'Because,' he said, rubbing his hands across her back. 'Your dance card is full. For all eternity.
Lauren Kate
#16. Do you want to sit down?" she asked Olianna, who lurked directly behind Luce with her arrow at the ready.
"I prefer to stand guard-"
"Yeah, I don't guess you can really sit guard," Luce mumbled. "Ha-ha.
Lauren Kate
#17. I know, and I do trust you, but when you said it was a surprise I thought you meant 'Here, Luce. I got you a unicorn.' not 'Here, Luce, jump in the river.
Jay McLean
#18. Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn't wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce - wouldn't He?
Alan Bradley
#19. The voice sank through luce's skin and straight into her heart. Daniel's voice. He was calling to her. He wanted her. Needed her. Luce moved towards the sound
Lauren Kate
#20. If Luce had to rank the worst moments of his existence, Abaddon's betrayal would be up there with the day he was cast into the pit by his own brother.
Neither came close to the sting of losing Serah, though.
J.M. Darhower
#21. Molly slapped the lid back down then pushed past Luce into the foyer stumbling over Shelby in her path.
"Excuse you " they said gruffly at the same time eyeing each other suspiciously.
"Oh good. " Gabbe leaned in to give Luce a hug. "Molly's made a friend."
Lauren Kate
#22. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)
Lauren Kate
#23. Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.
Lauren Kate
#24. In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again.
Charles Frazier
#25. I'm crazy about you. How can you not see that? How can anybody that sees me with you not see that? Yes, there have been other girls. And yes, they didn't mean anything to me. But you do, Luce. You mean the world to me.
Jay McLean
#26. Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.
Lauren Kate
#27. The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.
Alice Morse Earle
#28. Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
David Halberstam
#29. You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".
Lauren Kate
#30. Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time
Lauren Kate
#31. Now I find the stack of chapters I called Under Magnolia. Why, after many years, even open these flowered folders? Dare alla luce, the Tuscans say at the birth of a baby, to give to the light.
Frances Mayes
#32. I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you. Daniel to Luce Page 352
Lauren Kate
#34. Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind.
Nicole Williams
#35. Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before
"
Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?
Lauren Kate
#36. Because I know I will never love anyone like I love you. That's what will overcome the past every time it tries to rear its ugly head." He stepped closer. "So it's either you and me or me and me, Luce. And I don't really like myself, so I hope you'll pick the you and me option.
Nicole Williams
#37. And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.
Lauren Kate
#38. By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.
Charles Frazier
#39. Oooh!" Bill squealed. "Very rococo."
"So, I'm really doing this? I'm just going to go down there and pretend
" (Luce)
"No pretending." Bill shook his head. "Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.
Lauren Kate
#40. Luce. We fight. I'm used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we've ever had, but you're here now. That's all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you're still with me.
Nicole Williams
#41. Luce: You could have kept your promises.
Daniel: I promised I'd stay.
Lauren Kate
#42. Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases.
Arriane: Rule number two - don't listen to me!
Lauren Kate
#43. For her, then," Michael said.
Luce sighed. "For her.
J.M. Darhower
#44. Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.
Charles Frazier
#45. I'll always be here, Luce. I'm yours," he breathed, squeezing my hands, "forever.
Nicole Williams
#46. Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would a Larry de Luce have been more understanding?
'Hell, no!' I shouted into the wind ...
Alan Bradley
#47. I've already had to wait so long."
"How long?" Luce asked.
"Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.
Lauren Kate
#48. You, Luce," he said, his voice tired. "There may not be a shortage of Adrianas out there, but there's only one you. And that's the person I want to give myself to.
Nicole Williams
#49. So you planned this? The whole time we were together, you were scheming some way to screw up royally so I'd leave you alone?"
"No, Luce," he said, grabbing my hand back. "So I'd leave you alone.
Nicole Williams
#50. LUCE: You really beleive this? That someday I'll live through this?
DANIEL: With all my heart and soul, I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.
-Daniel & Luce, PASSION
Lauren Kate
#51. When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out
Lauren Kate
#52. Luce recognized her from European history class. Amy Something.
Lauren Kate
#53. Luce had to fight every urge in her body not to run into his arms. He was breathtaking: a knight in shining armor to outshine any fairy-tale knight.
Lauren Kate
#54. Lou didn't need to tell me, Luce," he said, looking between me and the field. "I don't need someone to tell me when my girl's in the stands. I could pick you out even if I was playing in the Superdome and you were tucked into the back row.
Nicole Williams
#55. You caught me" Luce said.
"I'll always catch you when you fall" said Daniel
Lauren Kate
#56. Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine.
Alan Bradley
#57. I think your girlfriends getting Jealous," Luce said, gesturing at the pair.
"Which one?" He asked.
"I didn't realise they were both your girlfriends."
"Neither is my girlfriend. I meant, which one did you think was my girlfriend?
Lauren Kate
#58. It's okay Luce, it's not about you, or how you used to eat your boogers until you were seven
Jay McLean
#59. Though auditing a class at the Sorbonne taught by Luce Irigaray and titled The Mother-Daughter Relationship: The Darkest of Dark Continents, Claire had followed maternal example by setting out guest towels.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#60. You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it.
Nicole Williams
#61. No" Daniel cried " No, no, no"
Luce's heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circle and let his wings bloom out to their full size.
Lauren Kate
#62. She spotted a lone dandelion,and it crossed her mind that a younger Luce would have pounced on it and then made a wish and blown. But this Luce's wishes felt too heavy for something so light.
Lauren Kate
#63. When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.
Walter Isaacson
#64. I'm cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end.
Nicole Williams
#65. Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?"
"I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.
Lauren Kate
#66. How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he could no longer offer her protection. Now that moment had come and gone- and so did Luce
Lauren Kate
#67. Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
Walter Isaacson
#68. Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary of any boy at Whooton when I was there. They gave us a test.
J.D. Salinger
#69. That it doesn't matter why I ran," he said, staring at me without blinking, "because I came back. I'll always come back, Luce. No matter how many rip-roaring fights we have and no matter how many miscommunications we have. I'll always come back because you're where I belong.
Nicole Williams
#70. For every time Luce met Daniel - and she always met Daniel - nothing mattered as much as their love.
Lauren Kate
#71. You've had time, Luce. I've given you your space." he said, the bed moaning as he stood. "I've aged fifty years in three weeks' time because I did my part and stayed away from you. But now you're here. And maybe you're not here because of me, but either way, you couldn't stay away.
Nicole Williams
#72. Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.
Lauren Kate
#73. Luce, sitting near the back, all of this new to her, likes to believe her children are nothing like a pair of copperheads amid a field of sweet brown mice.
Charles Frazier
#74. I'll wait for you, Luce, until you're ready. Just tell me now, so I don't sit around getting my hopes up ... do you think that maybe someday you'll want me, too?
Jay McLean
#75. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!
Alan Bradley
#76. I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.
Lauren Kate
#77. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
David Halberstam
#78. See? That's it," he said, waving his hand. "That's part of what makes us so great, Luce. I'm crazy. You're crazy. Together, we make our own brand of crazy.
Nicole Williams
#79. Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.
Lauren Kate
#80. As Uncle Tarquin de Luce once wrote in the margin of one of his many notebooks of chemical experiments: Consider also the container.
Alan Bradley
#82. The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.
Flavia de Luce
Alan Bradley
#83. Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.
Lauren Kate
#84. It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce
#85. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
Ron Luce
#86. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
#88. Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together
Luce Irigaray
#89. You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
#90. Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
Henry R. Luce
#91. I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
#92. I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.
William Luce
#93. They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
Clare Boothe Luce
#94. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
#95. Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
Clare Boothe Luce
#96. To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
Clare Boothe Luce
#97. I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
Clare Boothe Luce
#98. What if you find your soul mate ... at the wrong time?
Lauren Kate
#99. If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
Clare Boothe Luce
