Kristin Lavransdatter Quotes

She went as through a forest
the columns were furrowed like ancient trees, and in through the forest flowed the light, many-hued and clear as song, from the pictured windows. High up above her, beasts and men sported among the stone leafage, and angels played
and yet far, dizzily far higher, the vaulting soared, lifting the church towards God. In a hall that lay to one side, worship was being held at an altar. Kristin sank down on her knees by a pillar. The singing cut into her like a too strong light. Now she saw how low she lay in the dust ... Pater noster. Credo in unum Deum. Ave Maria, gratia plena. ~ Sigrid Undset

You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings. ~ Sigrid Undset

'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it. ~ Sue Miller

I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive. ~ Kristin Hannah

courtyards at midnight, disguised. And besides, ~ Kristin Cashore

Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.'
Katsa froze. The voice came from above rather than behind, and it didn't sound quite like Skye. She turned.
'I though it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all that,' he said- and there, he was there, standing straight, eyes glimmering, mouth twitching, and the path he'd plowed through the snow stretching behind him. Katsa cried out and ran, tackling Po so hard that he fell back into the snow and she on top of him. And he laughed, and held her tight, and she was crying; and then Bitterblue came and threw herself squealing on top of them. ~ Kristin Cashore

Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last. ~ Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

You can't control everything. Just enjoy what the world is giving you. ~ Kristin Newman

tried to keep smiling. Truc took the beer from her and stood there in the pale rectangle of light. The dogs were quiet beside ~ Kristin Hannah

Love is timeless. I knew the moment," he whispered back. ~ Kristin Groulx

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. ~ Kristin Hannah

and a pronounced chin and deep-set gray ~ Kristin Hannah

Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left. ~ Kristin Hannah

sometimes, something happens that jolts you to reality and causes you to reevaluate what's important in life and what you really want out of it. For ~ Kristin Addis

I love that I am but one of millions of single girls hitting the road by themselves these days. A hateful little ex-boyfriend once said that a houseful of cats used to be the sign of a terminally single woman, but not it's a house full of souvenirs acquired on foreign adventures. He said it derogatorily: Look at all of this tragic overcompensating in the form of tribal masks and rain sticks. But I say that plane tickets replacing cats might be the best evidence of women's progress as a gender. I'm damn proud of us. Also, since I have both a cat and a lot of foreign souvenirs, I broke up with that dude and went on a really great trip. ~ Kristin Newman

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration. ~ Kristin Hersh

And Kristin Hersh made total sense on 4AD. There was something wide-eyed and extraordinary about her, something emotional and visceral, something basic and yet complex. ~ Martin Aston

This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She ~ Kristin Hannah

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. ~ Kristin Armstrong

Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal. ~ Kristin Kreuk

But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us. ~ Kristin Hannah

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both. ~ Kristin Kreuk

I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be ... vampires are very alluring. ~ Kristin Cast

I see you have Sgiach placed in the middle," Thanatos said.
"Yeah, along with onion rings, Hostess Ding Dongs, and my name," Aphrodite said. ~ Kristin Cast

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him. ~ Kristin Cashore

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place. ~ Kristin Cashore

Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward. ~ Kristin Hannah

There is nothing wrong with impractical loves ~ Kristin Cashore

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale. ~ Kristin Hannah

That kiss...it changed everything.
He'd liked it.
Really fucking liked it.
So much so that if there weren't multiple sets of eyes trained on them, he just might've slammed sweet Faith Hamilton against the wall and kissed her until he blew her snow boots off. ~ Kristin Miller

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever. ~ Kristin Hannah

Not that anyone really knows what one is. And yet, people still find each other. It's a freaking miracle, when you think about it. ~ Kristin Walker

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much. ~ Kristin Hannah

I was a spiritual kid. ~ Kristin Chenoweth

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. ~ Kristin Davis

I don't want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now I'm none of those things, and I'm a human who has scary visions and don't know what to do about any of it. ~ Kristin Cast

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. ~ Kristin Armstrong

I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney. ~ Kristin Chenoweth