Antonia Quotes

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal. ~ Antonia Perdu

Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry. ~ Antonia Montoya

My mother was a politician in my formative years. ~ Antonia Fraser

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

May inspiration travel and always return 360 degrees. ~ Antonia Perdu

I whirled round, and there on one of those dry gravel beds, was the biggest snake I had ever seen. He was sunning himself, after the cold night, and he must have been asleep when Antonia screamed. When I turned, he was lying in long loose waves, like a letter "W." He twitched and began to coil slowly. He was not merely a big snake, I thought-he was a circus monstrosity. His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick. He was as thick as my leg, and looked as if millstones couldn't crush the disgusting vitality out of him. ~ Willa Cather

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress. ~ Antonia Fraser

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. ~ Antonia Fraser

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument. ~ Elton John

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

[...]because I happen to like holding a room full of teenagers hostage while I read Miss Willa Cather's My Antonia out loud to them. ~ Elizabeth Wetmore

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

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. ~ Antonia Fraser

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ Willa Cather

In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality ~ Antonia Michaelis

To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize.. ~ Antonia Young

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. ~ Antonia Thomas

Mignon' said the King, 'soon you are going to be a great king'. But he also told Anjou, in a memorable phrase
'Try to remain at peace with your neighbors: I have loved war too much ... ~ Antonia Fraser

He'd always loved how she fought him. He loved the crackle and spark of her wit. Now he discovered he also loved the way she lay against him in what felt like perfect trust. ...
Antonia was a tall, vital woman, no shrinking miss. Now she felt brittle and vulnerable. He tightened his hold and told himself the surge of protectiveness meant nothing. Again he couldn't quite believe it. ~ Anna Campbell

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. ~ Antonia Fraser

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. ~ Antonia Fraser

Antonia came in and stood before me ... It was a shock, of course. It always is, to meet people after long years, especially if they have lived as much and as hard as this woman had. We stood looking at each other. The eyes that peered anxiously at me were - simply Antonia's eyes..As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there in the full vigour of her personality, battered, but not diminished ... ~ Willa Cather

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy. ~ Antonia Thomas

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven. ~ Alice Hoffman

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman. ~ Antonia Thomas

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance. ~ Antonia Fraser

Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds. ~ Antonia Perdu

I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard." visualization words ~ Antonia Perdu

She didn't know if this excitement was fueled by her ambition to find out something that nobody else knew. Or by the anticipation of finding out. ~ Antonia Michaelis

Antonia! This is your father speaking. Unless you've swooned onto the floor, I expect you to get yourself out here immediately. ~ Jane Carter Barrett

I'm glad I was never an heiress. ~ Antonia Fraser

What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love? ~ Antonia Perdu

He whom is without typos, throw the first stone. ~ Antonia Perdu

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

There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They're too weak to make it from shore to shore. I saw the words underwater, millions of them; they're lying there on the bottom of the sea, a whole load of wrecked sentences, sentences that never reached their destination, questions from one side and answers from the other ... ~ Antonia Michaelis

Jacques appeared on his hands and knees, peering around the corner of the cabin. His dark eyes lit with pleasure when he saw her. The baby flashed Antonia his wide grin and scooted toward her. Only in the last two days had he gone from pushing himself across the floor to a hands-and-knees crawl.
Henri trailed so close behind Jacques that he had to walk wide-legged so he didn't step on his brother.
The baby reached her, placed his hands on her legs, and pressed himself up, grabbing at the front of her tunic. "Maa."
Antonia hugged Jacques. He'd soiled his rabbit skin diaper and smelled, but she held him close, needing to feel the baby in her arms.
He wiggled in protest.
She dropped a kiss on his forehead and reached up to her shoulder to unlace the leather ties of her tunic, pulling the flap down to free her breast. He began to suckle greedily.
Henri dropped to her other side and leaned against her.
Antonia put her arm around him. Just holding her sons brought her comfort but also increased her despair. What do I be doin' now?
Should I be takin' the boys and leave? Head for Sweetwater Springs?
Antonia shook her head. No! I won't be leavin' Jean-Claude. Cain't leave my home.
But without her husband to provide for them, she didn't know how long she'd be able to manage on her own.
Somehow, I'll be findin' a way, Antonia vowed. ~ Debra Holland

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. ~ Antonia Fraser

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

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

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

We were examining a big hole with two entrances. The burrow sloped into the ground at a gentle angle, so that we could see where the two corridors united, and the floor was dusty from use, like a little highway over which much travel went. I was walking backward, in a crouching position, when I heard Antonia scream. She was standing opposite me, pointing behind me and shouting something in Bohemian. I whirled around, and there, on one of those dry gravel beds, was the biggest snake I had ever seen. He was sunning himself, after the cold night, and he must have been asleep when Antonia screamed. When I turned, he was lying in loose waves, like a letter "W". He twitched and began to coil slowly. He was not merely a big snake, I thought - he was a circus monstrosity. His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick. He was as thick as my leg, and looked as if millstones couldn't crush the disgusting vitality out of him. He lifted his hideous little head , and rattled. I didn't run because I didn't think of it - if my back had been against a stone wall I couldn't have felt more cornered. I saw his coils tighten - now he would spring, spring his length, I remembered. I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops. I struck now from hate. Antonia, barefooted as she was, ran up behind me. Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and windi ~ Willa Cather

Mom, have you ever thought you might like to try living in San Antonia a while?" Uh-oh, did I cross a line?
… She gave a happy giggle. "Well, I hadn't thought about that before. Might be fun. ~ Brenda Vicars

Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue. ~ Antonia Michaelis

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener ~ Antonia Michaelis

Driving across the world in a pink tuk tuk is something I would recommend to everyone. It's proved to me that humans are essentially kind, the humour is the key to survival and that risks are always worth taking. ~ Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

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

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness! ~ Antonia Fraser

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion. ~ Antonia Fraser

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

Two hands are better than four sometimes. ~ Antonia White

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart."
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. ~ Willa Cather

The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight. ~ Antonia Perdu

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere. ~ Antonia Fraser

That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet and part as in dreams. ~ Nina Antonia

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

Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen. ~ Steve Burt

Nothing was perfect, but everything was all right. The light was never just blue. ~ Antonia Michaelis

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?"
"To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said.
"To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice. ~ Mary Stanton

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. ~ Antonia Fraser

Stop worrying, Antonia. I know you despise being the center of attention, but as we all know, people attend balls for the sole purpose of quaffing down as much of the host's liquor as possible. It's a completely parasitic relationship, so trust me when I tell you that the crapulous crowd will take scant notice of you. ~ Jane Carter Barrett

As long as you're better at it than skating ... , Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life. ~ Antonia Michaelis

I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller. ~ Antonia Michaelis

Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while. ~ Antonia Perdu

Uh, Miss Carlson," I said, standing at her desk after everybody else had gone on to their next class, "somebody told me you went to that guy's funeral the one the highway patrol shot."
"Yes," SHe said. "I did."
She didn't look like she was mad at me about it. She had real long eyelashes. I bet she was good-looking when she was young.
"Was he a relative or something?" That was what I was afraid of.
"No. Not even a friend really." She paused, like she was hunting for the right words. Finally she said, "I read a book once that ended with the words 'the incommunicable past' You can only share the past with someone who's shared it with you. So I can't explain to you what Mark was to me, exactly. I knew him a long time ago. ~ S.E. Hinton

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. ~ Antonia Perdu

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

Wherever I may be
In the woods or in the fields
Whatever the hours of day
Be it dawn or the eventide
My heart still feels it yet
The eternal regret...
As I sink into my sleep
The absent one is near
Alone upon my couch
I feel his beloved touch
In work or in repose
We are foreverver close... ~ Mary, Queen Of Scots

And she imagined how things could be later. It was stupid, but the picture just appeared in her mind. Abel and Magnus shoveling snow together ... in twenty years, in thirty. Magnus had grown old, his broad back still strong but bent from time, his hair nearly white at the temples. And Abel ... Abel was a different Abel, an adult one, one who was absolutely self-confident and didn't let his eyes dart around the room at lunch, as if he were caught in trap.
"Nonsense," she whispered. "Thirty years? You don't stay with the person you meet at seventeen ... what kind of fairy tale are you living in, Anna Leemann?"
And still the picture seemed right. ~ Antonia Michaelis

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

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

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

Merry a mind is

of a weeping willow

roots raising concrete

be in

fit out

all abstract. ~ Antonia Perdu

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. ~ Antonia Fraser

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

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. ~ Antonia Michaelis

Could time be measured in the books you have read and the books you haven't read? ~ Antonia Honeywell

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. ~ Antonia Fraser

He dragged a thick line through my name. It felt like a knife scraping across my throat. ~ Antonia Hodgson

Life is series of comebacks. ~ Antonia Kilday

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

It was a disaster ... It was the most wonderful thing in the world. ~ Antonia Michaelis

I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow. ~ Antonia Michaelis

To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance.. ~ Antonia Young

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me. ~ Antonia Michaelis

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune. ~ Antonia Bird

Forgiving is hard, but not forgiving is harder ~ Mother Antonia

beauty tip for the world, go read a book ~ Antonia Perdu

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

We have lift off of the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-3) communication satellite at 4:44 a.m ~ Antonia Perdu

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

Ninety-seven is my lucky number. ~ Antonia Fraser

Life is too short to follow the speed limit ~ Paula Antonia Purpera

Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom? ~ Antonia Michaelis

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette ~ Antonia Fraser

I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again. ~ Antonia Michaelis

When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. Filling pages and people with inspiration. When my thoughts don't want to rest on a page, we argue. We argue that one merely is ready just too comfortable playing in The Nile [denial] river. So we compromise. We grow,
water metaphors
and plant simile trees
of golden-almond
manifested love dreams.
Then at that moment, we forgot what we were arguing about.
Beauty can do that for you.
That's the beauty of writing. ~ Antonia Perdu

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive. ~ Antonia Fraser

I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don't forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you. ~ Antonia Novello

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. ~ Antonia Fraser