Madlen Quotes

#1. Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.'
Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.'
Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.

Kristin Cashore

#2. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

Kristin Cashore

#3. When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. I want to die painting.

Paul Cezanne

#5. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

#6. The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

Lauren Oliver

#7. What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.

Susan Meiselas

#8. Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

Martin Luther King Jr.