Top 100 Quotes About Rosamund
#1. Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar's, an empire that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea.
Sharon Kay Penman
#3. A hidden soul seemed to be flowing forth from Rosamund's fingers, and so indeed it was, since souls live on in perpetual echoes, and to all fine expression there goes somewhere an originating activity, if it be only that of an interpreter.
George Eliot
#4. The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed.
Michael Frayn
#5. It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
Rosamund Hodge
#6. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Rosamund Lupton
#7. As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?
Rosamund Pike
#8. If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.
Rosamund Hodge
#9. When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.
Rosamund Pike
#10. I know what it is like to live every day and every hour by the fruits of someone else's wretched bargain. To see people suffer and know that they suffer because I am loved.
I would not do that to the ones I love. Not for anything in the whole wide world.
Rosamund Hodge
#11. Because I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear.
Rosamund Lupton
#12. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
Rosamund Pike
#13. Add to that six tables of cakes, ices, and punch bowls, a group of seven musicians playing the violin, three hundred candles, and who knew how many courtiers, and the result was a room that made Rachelle feel like she was being punched in the face just by looking at it.
Rosamund Hodge
#15. In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.
Rosamund Pike
#16. I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
Rosamund Pike
#17. And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.
Rosamund Lupton
#18. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#19. Sex and laughter. The heart and lungs of a relationship.
Rosamund Lupton
#20. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
Rosamund Lupton
#21. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
Rosamund Hodge
#22. She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.
Rosamund Hodge
#23. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
Rosamund Hodge
#24. Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.
Rosamund Lupton
#25. What is this?" demanded the High Priestess from the doorway.
So here she was, back in the Hall of Judgment, facing a circle of priestesses.
Again? said Juliet. You do not have the wisest habits.
At least I haven't died yet, said Runajo.
Rosamund Hodge
#26. I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
Rosamund Pike
#28. I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?
Rosamund Hodge
#29. The better to kill me in my sleep?" "It would be rude to wake you first.
Rosamund Hodge
#31. You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head
Rosamund Hodge
#32. Been united by superficial tendrils of the small and the mundane, but the enormous fact of your death was ripping each fragile connection. I said
Rosamund Lupton
#33. I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.
Rosamund Hodge
#34. This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.
Rosamund Hodge
#35. A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Rosamund Lupton
#36. I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.
Rosamund Pike
#37. The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.
Rosamund Hodge
#38. He was my enemy. He was evil. He wasn't even human. I should have been disgusted, but just like the last time, I couldn't help myself any more than water could stop itself running downhill.
Rosamund Hodge
#39. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?
Rosamund Hodge
#40. Though mountains melt and oceans burn,
The gifts of love shall still return.
Rosamund Hodge
#41. That's a cold-blooded way to view the world," said Runajo.
"And the way of the Sisters isn't?"
"Blood is hot when you spill it," said Runajo, and Juliet laughed suddenly, her head tilting back.
Rosamund Hodge
#42. He took wives on the orders of his masters. They wanted him to know that he could never be free. They had burnt the holes in the sky, and they let the demons - Children of Typhon - ravage people against his will.
Rosamund Hodge
#43. He was being played with. He was being shown his place. He was being publicly humiliated, but Paris was used to that, and he wasn't going to stop for anything except death or maiming.
Sooner or later, Vai was going to realize that, and then he would have to make a choice.
Rosamund Hodge
#44. Why is he scared of the dark?"
I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is".
Rosamund Hodge
#45. I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.
Rosamund Pike
#46. It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.
Rosamund Pike
#47. I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.
Rosamund Pike
#48. There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.
Rosamund Hodge
#50. I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
Rosamund Lupton
#51. The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
Rosamund Pike
#52. Just because things were fair didn't make them easy.
Rosamund Hodge
#53. I know I've got loads that has never been tapped.
Rosamund Pike
#54. But we'll pretend we know how to love," I smiled at him. "And someday we'll learn.
Rosamund Hodge
#55. I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Rosamund Pike
#56. A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way.
Rosamund Lupton
#57. It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people's too - yours, Leo's, Dad's. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.
Rosamund Lupton
#58. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother
Rosamund Lupton
#60. When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'
Rosamund Pike
#61. There is no new beginning. No second chance.
You turned to me and I wasn't there.
You are dead. If I had taken your call, you would be alive.
It's as blunt as that.
I'm sorry.
Rosamund Lupton
#62. Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.
Rosamund Lupton
#63. He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him
Rosamund Hodge
#64. Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
Rosamund Pike
#65. Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.
Rosamund Pike
#66. Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
Rosamund Lupton
#67. We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the U.K., the more cross-fertilization there is that's perhaps changing.
Rosamund Pike
#68. Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother's duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me. I will be happy and happy until it kills me.
Rosamund Hodge
#69. I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Rosamund Pike
#70. I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.
Rosamund Pike
#72. Can you get a summer snow-globe instead of a winter one with green grass and flowering azalea bushes and blue sky? Because I'm here, inside it. If you shake it, perhaps it fills with black smoke, not swirling snowflakes.
Rosamund Lupton
#73. Mums answer is so unexpected and I am a litte stunned, actually. I wonder whether, had I known the reason for my name as a child, I would have tried to live up to it. Instead of being a failed Arabella, I might have become a Shakespearean plucky Beatrice.
Rosamund Lupton
#74. What gods would a demon serve, and what would I be required to offer them?
Rosamund Hodge
#75. And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
Rosamund Pike
#76. In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.
Rosamund Hodge
#77. Study the sky but never love it," Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. "It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.
Rosamund Hodge
#78. I've always been intimidated by handsome men, let alone beautiful ones. I associate them not so much with inevitable rejection as with turning me completely invisible.
Rosamund Lupton
#79. Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.
Rosamund Pike
#80. ...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.
Rosamund Lupton
#81. Because lovely, innocent girls could not ever hope to fight the Devourer.
Rosamund Hodge
#82. You told me once that the last of the senses to go is hearing. But you're wrong. The last of the senses to go is love.
Rosamund Lupton
#83. With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.
Rosamund Hodge
#84. Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.
Rosamund Hodge
#85. A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our arms. We can hold the whole of him. But when we grow too large to be held our body no longer defines us
Rosamund Lupton
#86. As I waited, I flicked through a magazine in a futile bid to look occupied. It had the next month's date on the cover and I remembered you laughing at time-traveling fashion mags, saying the date on the cover should alert people to their absurdity inside.
Rosamund Lupton
#88. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.
Rosamund Hodge
#89. I reminded you I studied literature, didn't I? I've had an endless supply of quotations at my disposal, but they had always highlighted the inadequacy of my life rather than providing an uplifting literary score to it.
Rosamund Lupton
#91. Then he whispered - so softly I barely heard it - Please stay.
Rosamund Hodge
#92. So you know what's wrong but you don't know what's right. What use is that? Well, it narrows down the options anyway.
Rosamund Hodge
#94. I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother.
Rosamund Hodge
#95. Walking out of an A level paper isn't funny."
"It's not that I'm laughing at."
"So what is it?"
"No one ever tells you when you're doing all that course work and revision and timed essays and study skills that it's an option."
"But it isn't an option."
"It is, because I just took it.
Rosamund Lupton
#97. I had just kissed somebody whose smile had faded, who was watching me now with tranquil eyes and making not the least effort to bridge the little space between our bodies.
Rosamund Hodge
#99. I don't love him. But I take a treacherous delight in him.
Rosamund Hodge
#100. If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?
Rosamund Hodge
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