Pietro Maximoff Quotes

You didn't see that coming? ~ Quick Silver, Pietro Maximoff

I felt that fear in me could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter settled in my mind in orderly sentences, a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, where I was always and no matter what at the center. Everything that struck me
my studies, books, Franco, Pietro, the children, Nino, the earthquake
would pass, and I, whatever I among those I was accumulating, I would remain firm. 179 ~ Elena Ferrante

Donnelly subtly eyes them while facing us too. "Those mugs are bugging Beckett." I can't detect Beckett's annoyance. But not a second later, he realigns the mugs in a neat row.
Maximoff gesticulates from his chest to Sulli, speaking extremely fucking empathetically to his cousin.
I skim him, a smile playing at my lips, and I take a swig of coffee. "He's about to hug her." On cue, Maximoff wraps his arms around his cousin, and she squeezes him back.
Akara bounces his ball. "She'll buy a Sagittarius something for me. Wait for it…" We watch Sulli scan the shelves and then veer to a display of zodiac jewelry. She plucks a silver Sagittarius keychain off a hook.
Spending 24/7 with a person has this effect. ~ Krista Ritchie

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. ~ Pietro Metastasio

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! ~ Pietro Aretino

I'm the shield that protects Maximoff Hale, and I'm never going to break and leave him defenceless. ~ Krista Ritchie

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame. ~ Pietro Aretino

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. ~ Pietro Metastasio

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. ~ Pietro Aretino

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing. ~ Pietro Aretino

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. ~ Pietro Metastasio

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ~ Pietro Mascagni

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. ~ Pietro Aretino

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride. ~ Pietro Metastasio

Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries' worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches. ~ Louis De Bernieres

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. ~ Pietro Aretino

You are the one you have been waiting for. ~ Pietro De La Luna

You Are All The Ones You Have Been Waiting For ~ Pietro De La Luna

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell. ~ Pietro Aretino

Rowin glances briefly at Farrow's hand on me, then he scribbles on the chart. His eyes land on me for a short second. "You're too sweet to be with someone like Farrow."
Farrow rubs my leg. "You'd be surprised how much of a dick Maximoff is. ~ Krista Ritchie

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years. ~ Ivana Trump

Life can be hard sometimes," I say. "My mom and dad taught me that when you're not sure if you can keep going, you just need to take it one day at a time, one step at a time. Can you do that for me? ~ Krista Ritchie

High birth is an accident, not a virtue. ~ Pietro Metastasio

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks. ~ Pietro Aretino

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not. ~ Pietro Metastasio

Maximoff." His deep voice pitches me from a fantasy.
I lift my eyes.
He smiles.
"What?" I combat.
Farrow bends a knee. "Are you thinking about the philosophical meaning of the world or are you thinking about fucking me in the ass? ~ Krista Ritchie

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. ~ Pietro Metastasio

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. ~ Pietro Aretino

[...] no other person on earth could feel such love. Pietro Crespi then saw the lights go on in every window in town except that of Amaranta. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect. ~ Pietro Belluschi

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home. ~ Pietro Aretino

Maximoff isn't cautious or worried. His lips inch upward. "You're in my world." He's excited about that.
I nod a few times. "It's a good thing I love your world, wolf scout. And that your world is mine." That gets to us both. ~ Krista Ritchie