Top 84 My Antonia Quotes
#1. You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.
Antonia Michaelis
#2. He'd been right about her determination to save the people she loved. He wondered with a sudden pang he couldn't identify how it would feel having someone like Antonia on his side.
Anna Campbell
#3. Her words were like the hammer. My stance was of a nail. I didn't need those callous words on my once strong shell. Hammered. Hammered. Words on my shoulder blades. All of my great feelings concave.
Antonia Perdu
#4. Dance me through th curtains that our kisses have out worm.
Raise a ent of shelter now, though every thread is torn.
Dance me to the end of love.
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
Antonia Michaelis
#5. Antonia, if Mark is right and I never see you again, if this really is good-bye, tell me one thing for certain. Tell me I won't die knowing you married him willingly. Fight them both with all you have.
Julie March
#6. The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight.
Antonia Perdu
#7. Where does someone go when he dies?', 'When does fear end?', 'Where are all the single socks that disappeared in the washing machine?
Antonia Michaelis
#8. People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Antonia Fraser
#9. Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him ... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending.
Antonia Michaelis
#10. He'd been unhappy, restless, irritable since leaving Surrey. He'd lived on memories of her. Her absence slowly strangled him. The instant he took Antonia in his arms, he breathed again.
Anna Campbell
#11. Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.
Antonia Montoya
#12. I slipped one of the shoes off, looked at the inside. Property of Antonia O'Neill Taylor. I knew it. My stepmother! The bitch meant to bury me wearing her cast off shoes!
MaryJanice Davidson
#13. It was a disaster ... It was the most wonderful thing in the world.
Antonia Michaelis
#14. Part of her - unreasonable Anna- still loved him. Maybe she would never stop loving him.
Antonia Michaelis
#15. My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public.
Antonia Thomas
#16. I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.
Antonia Perdu
#17. Our dreams can carry valuable information when we consciously choose to start listening to them.
Antonia Hall
#18. I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.
Antonia Michaelis
#19. It is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.
Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix
#20. Bullies are just men who don't know they are cowards, of course.
Antonia Hodgson
#21. When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'
Antonia Thomas
#22. I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
Antonia Thomas
#23. My outlook has changed, Antonia. Last year this time, I'd bemoaned the ruined hay." He shrugged. "Now I know what real loss is. So I'm seeing things differently.
Debra Holland
#24. I'll come back," I said earnestly, through the soft, intrusive darkness.
"Perhaps you will"- I felt rather than saw her smile. "But even if you don't, you're here, like my father. So I won't be lonesome.
Willa Carther
#25. That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
#26. She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ... '
'That's silly!' Micha giggled.
'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!
Antonia Michaelis
#27. The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser
#28. But whenever my consciousness was quickened, all those early friends were quickened within it, and in some strange way they accompanied me through all my new experiences. They were so much alive in me that I scarcely stopped to wonder whether they were alive anywhere else. Or how.
Willa Cather
#29. I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Antonia Fraser
#30. That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser
#32. My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
Antonia Thomas
#33. The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.
The storyteller didn't exist anymore.
Antonia Michaelis
#34. Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
Antonia Fraser
#36. It's nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.
Antonia Thomas
#37. You didn't see us," she said to Anna ...
"I was ... lost in thought," Anna replied.
"What were you thinking about?"
"You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.
Antonia Michaelis
#38. Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Antonia Fraser
#39. I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser
#40. They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.
Antonia Michaelis
#41. Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
Antonia Fraser
#44. Who goes to the beach without trying to touch the water? The one who cannot see the water, but if the blind wishes to FEEL the water, he shall not retreat, just as long as he holds hands with FAITH.
Antonia Perdu
#45. Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.
Antonia Perdu
#46. It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.
Antonia Fraser
#47. very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to
Antonia Fraser
#48. Everybody knew everything now. Or did everybody know nothing? Nobody knew anything ... Nobody could know everything.
Antonia Michaelis
#49. To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
Antonia Young
#50. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
Antonia Hall
#52. The one who poses the most danger may not be a stranger, Sometimes it's those we hold dear that we really need to fear
Antonia Monacelli
#53. [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
Antonia Fraser
#54. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.
Antonia Perdu
#55. My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
Antonia Fraser
#56. I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
Antonia Fraser
#57. Deep down many of us experience a vast discrepancy between what we're taught we should feel about sex and how we actually feel.
Antonia Hall
#58. Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.
Antonia Thomas
#59. May inspiration travel and always return 360 degrees.
Antonia Perdu
#60. People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
Antonia Fraser
#61. If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Antonia Fraser
#62. Sometimes I don't even know if I'm extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you
Antonia Michaelis
#63. Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!
Antonia Michaelis
#64. By the time Domenica arrived at the Gothic Revival sandstone building on Queen Street, she had put out of her mind all thought of Antonia's torrid affair - at least she assumed it was torrid, and anyway, she wondered if there was any point in having an affair which was not torrid.
Alexander McCall Smith
#65. The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.
Antonia Michaelis
#67. Tapping into our inherent sexuality can offer a gateway to deep healing of past hurts and wounds, which are carried in the body and can hinder one's potentials for leading the happy, sexually fulfilled life we all deserve.
Antonia Hall
#69. The Golden stock ... ," Mustang murmurs. "How can you be so cold?"
"Little girl," Antonia sighs, "Gold is a cold metal.
Pierce Brown
#70. But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked.
"He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.
Antonia Michaelis
#71. The deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.
Antonia Fraser
#72. She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.
Antonia Fraser
#73. You know, Ian," Antonia commented, "my father always said a person needs a reason to leave and a reason to go. But I think sometimes the reason to go is so big, it fills you so much, that you don't even think of why you are leaving, you just do.
Erica Bauermeister
#74. The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.
Antonia Michaelis
#75. I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
Antonia Fraser
#76. My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
#77. I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser
#78. I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser
#79. I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
Antonia Fraser
#80. Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
#81. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Antonia Fraser
#82. After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser
#83. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.
Antonia Crane
