My Antonia Quotes

[...]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

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

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

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

I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself. ~ Antonia Michaelis

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

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

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

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

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

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ~ Antonia Fraser

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. ~ Antonia Fraser

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

Two hands are better than four sometimes. ~ Antonia White

Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on. ~ Antonia Montoya

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

You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky. ~ Graham Joyce

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

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

Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.'
'Do I have to eat them?'
'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said. ~ Antonia Michaelis

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

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. ~ Antonia Fraser

There is so much fear in this place sometimes I think it has seeped into the walls. ~ Antonia Hodgson

Everybody knew everything now. Or did everybody know nothing? Nobody knew anything ... Nobody could know everything. ~ Antonia Michaelis

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

In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord. ~ Antonia Michaelis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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