"Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would."

-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Marriage Quotes #Queens Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.”

Source : Song: I Wanna Love Somebody Like You, Album: Golden Road, 2002
“I was always an overachiever.”
“I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.”
“The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.”
“Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.”
“It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.”
“The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.”
“It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan

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