Navarre Quotes

Excuse me. I didn't know I was talking to a master."
"Tres Navarre," I said. "I usually wear a t-shirt, says 'Master.' It's in the wash. ~ Rick Riordan

The whore or the saint: these seemed to be the prototypes set up by the Church's historic misogyny. But was there no alternative model to follow?

Yes, for Anne had seen for herself that it was possible to be an independent thinker, set free from the pattern of sinful Eve or patient Griselda. She had been in the company of clever, strong-willed women like the Regent Margaret of Austria and Margaret of Navarre. The influence of evangelism had enabled women of character to take an alternative path, one that offered Anne Boleyn a different future. ~ Joanna Denny

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful. ~ Jack Vance

He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same. ~ Anne Stuart

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

He would die at her hands. He knew it, with sudden lightening clarity. The man he had struggled so hard to become, the all-powerful, all-knowing Simon of Navarre, would be destroyed by a woman's heart. ~ Anne Stuart

Life is a journey without reliable tour guides. You made plans and then you got distracted and took detours that proved to be dull, disastrous, or wonderful, or a combination of all three. – Josie Navarre (heroine) ~ Ann Major

Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

I suppose you will continue to screw things up unless I level with you, Navarre. Or unless I get someone to throw you in jail."
"Most likely."
"Goddamn your father."
"Amen. ~ Rick Riordan

I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all. ~ Oscar Wilde

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

Spite will make a woman do more than love. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

Ghost shook his head as he sat on the very edge of the bed, poised to take flight if need be. The spiral under his hair felt warm, almost painful, but he resisted the urge to rub it. It never helped when he did, and he was not sure what Gerry would do if the man saw it. The Witch had a symbol she called a triskele, the ink a vivid scarlet still, but no male that had ever come for healing bore a mark like hers, or like his. He had never found the words to ask the Witch about it, about why he was marked like a witch. ~ Morwen Navarre

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it. ~ Marguerite De Navarre