Marquis Bloody Chamber Quotes

#1. Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. But how can I be disappointed in space?

Beth Revis

#3. The heart's actions
are neither the sentence nor its reprieve.
Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite.
One bird singing back to another because it can't not.

Jane Hirshfield

#4. Swear to Christ, you're safe right here. I can give you that, Olivia. I can give you the night. I promise you that.

Kristen Ashley

#5. Know God, and you know yourself;
know yourself, and you know the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Everything was windswept and octagonal and finger-combed.

A.S. King

#7. It's absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.

Paul Washer

#8. I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'

Sarah MacLean

#9. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.

Neal Stephenson

#10. For those who love ... time is eternity ...

Henry Van Dyke

#11. Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.

Adam Leith Gollner

#13. Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan."
Logan produces a grin that suggests he's the cat that ate the canary, and suddenly I'm feeling rather canary-ish.

Addison Moore

#14. Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Khalil Gibran