Lanfranco Cordova Quotes

Not all loves are meant to last forever. Some burn like fire until there is nothing left but ash and black ink on skin. ~ Zoraida Cordova

If you were not with me in my times of struggle, don't expect to be in my triumphs. ~ Daniel De Cordova

They're afraid. Fear makes people do things they normally wouldn't. Like share a drink with someone they despise. ~ Zoraida Cordova

They Call her the Devourer."
"I'm guessing she's not a unicorn princess. ~ Zoraida Cordova

I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow you've fallen deep down into a Cordova story. I stared back at him. Be the good guy, he said. How do I know I'm the good guy? He pointed at me, nodding. A very wise question. You don't. Most bad guys think they're good. But there are a few signifiers. You'll be miserable. You'll be hated. You'll fumble around in the dark, alone and confused. You'll have little insight as to the true nature of things, not until the very last minute, and only if you have the stamina and the madness to go to the very, very end. But most importantly- and critically- you will act without regard for yourself. You'll be motivated by something that has nothing to do with the ego. You'll do it for justice. For grace. For love. Those large rather heroic qualities only the good have the strength to carry on their shoulders. And you'll listen. ~ Marisha Pessl

Flames as large as houses don't crackle - they roar. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Our kind, we don't leave many traces behind in this world. ~ Zoraida Cordova

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I missed it."
"Nine cats? They can send you to prison for that."
He pushed his glasses back on his nose. "I'm calling him Murad, after the cigarettes."
"Never heard of them."
"They're an obsolete Turkish brand, popular in the 1910s and '20s. Murad means 'desire' in Arabic. The only brand that ever appears in a Cordova film is Murad. There's not one Marlboro, Camel, or Virginia Slim. It goes further. If the Murad cigarette is focused upon by the camera in any Cordova film. The very next person who appears on-screen has been devastatingly targeted. In other words, the gods will have drawn a great big X across his shoulder blades and taped an invisible sign there that reads FUCKED. His life will henceforth never be the same. ~ Marisha Pessl

But everything about me has always been loud, the sound of my heart, the weight in my tread, even the cry I always seem to be holding back. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Why's it always the heart or the eye of something?" Rishi asks. "You notice that? There are so many body parts that don't get enough love, like earlobes and belly buttons. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Crooked smiles for crooked hearts. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather ~ Zoraida Cordova

Mama Juanita used to say that when you drop a spoon, get ready for company, probably from a vindictive woman. A fork - a handsome man. A knife - lock the doors and windows. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Nothing is yours! The world wasn't made for you. The world was made. ~ Zoraida Cordova

She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power. ~ Zoraida Cordova

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. ~ Jadelr And Cristina Cordova

As William Bernstein describes in 'A Splendid Exchange', 'The Arabs, invigorated by their conquests, experienced a cultural renaissance that extended to many fields; the era's greatest literature, art, mathematics, and astronomy was not found in Rome, Constantinople, or Paris, but in Damascus, Baghdad and Cordova. ~ Christopher Lascelles

I should have told him sooner that I needed something inside me to break so thoroughly I could never be put back together. ~ Zoraida Cordova

I wish I could have been there to tell you to never trust a boy with star eyes. They blind you like a deer in headlights." I ~ Zoraida Cordova

Not all monsters look monstrous.' There's so much sadness in his voice that I want to ask how he knows that. 'Sometimes they're perfectly normal humans. Sometimes they're so beautiful, you would never suspect. ~ Zoraida Cordova

She licks her lips, and then there is darkness. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. ~ Marisha Pessl

The smell of old books and dust wafts from the opening, more powerful than any memory. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Breakable. No matter who we are we are breakable. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Sometimes I wonder if a person can have so much regret they'll drown in it. ~ Zoraida Cordova

We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn't always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny. ~ Zoraida Cordova

It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope. ~ Jeanne Cordova

All lands change for the worse when the people do not fight back. Now there is nothing left." "But ~ Zoraida Cordova

There is so much wrong in the world." she says. "Sometimes, I feel the only thing I can give is a bit of kindness, even when I can't give hope. ~ Zoraida Cordova

We as human beings appear to be in the most adverse stages in our evolution. How can the Mother Earth survive when the souls of Her sons are tainted with avarice, and the very minds which shape Her fate are dominated by ego? Minds that are prone to paranoia and can no longer trust its brothers. Humanity is at a crossroads. A crossroads which speaks of either profound change or ultimate destruction. ~ Chris Cordova

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor

Don't touch things just because they're shiny. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Freak the ferocious out. ~ Marisha Pessl

Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that. ~ Zoraida Cordova

I didn't want to think about you dead."

"That's the thing, my love. Even if you don't think of the dead, the dead are thinking of you. ~ Zoraida Cordova

I thought of all the women my family had lost, the horrible things they'd witnessed, the acts they simply endured. Sabrina had become another face in a line of tragedies that stretched back generations. And soon, when the mood hit my grandmother just right, she'd sit at her kitchen table, a Styrofoam cup of lemonade in her warped hand, and she'd tell the story of Sabrina Cordova - how men loved her too much, how little she loved herself, how in the end it killed her. The stories always ended the same, only different girls died, and I didn't want to hear them anymore. ~ Kali Fajardo-Anstine

How rude of me. This is Roaan Recklit." We shake hands. Good grip, good grip. "Sorry," he says, releasing my hand. "I forget my own strength. ~ Zoraida Cordova

Don't listen to him," Thalia interjects. "Our court is more civilized than whatever happens on land."
"Tell that to the guy stuck to the ship with electric tape."
Kurt points a finger at Marty. "I don't know who you are. I assume you're part of the peace treaty, but I will not have you besmirch the king on our own land."
"Whoa, easy. I kid. I joke. I make funnies. ~ Zoraida Cordova