One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: th...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recen...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."
Her words silenced him, steadied him.
Antec...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.
MARIE RUTKOSKI Some days are just born bad. You know the type. The kind you want to sweep into your palm like spill...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin took the basket from her. "Coming or going?"
"I've a errand here, and won't be home until ...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, pru...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?
MARIE RUTKOSKI Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say th...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.
Do you sing? Those had been her first words t...
MARIE RUTKOSKI She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Someone was coming through the velvet.

He was pulling it wide, he was stepping onto Kestr...
MARIE RUTKOSKI An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a...
MARIE RUTKOSKI She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her...
MARIE RUTKOSKI She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake...
MARIE RUTKOSKI She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have d...
MARIE RUTKOSKI There is a difference between you and me. If I die, you'll survive. If you die, it will destr...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not.
MARIE RUTKOSKI I told you everything I know", said the messenger. Arin had gone to his childhood suite, feeling anx...
MARIE RUTKOSKI The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with ...
MARIE CURIE My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
MARIE HELVIN I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...
MARIE CURIE The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic...
MARIE CURIE I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class...
MARIE CURIE If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructi...
MARIE CURIE I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...
MARIE CURIE When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of...
MARIE CURIE There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
MARIE CURIE In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
MARIE CURIE A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural pheno...
MARIE CURIE On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series a...
MARIE LU Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love ...
MARIE OSMOND I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a ...
MARIE HELVIN I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I ...
MARIE HELVIN My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several...
MARIE HELVIN I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ...
MARIE CORELLI No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mo...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Off to her bed.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Let Them Book the Four Seasons,
MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
MARIE CURIE We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if ...
MARIE LU Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swe...
MARIE LOVELL Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
MARIE CURIE Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.
MARIE LU He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.
DEE MARIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo...
MARIE OSMOND All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MARIE CURIE To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very dif...
MARIE LENERU By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi...
MARIE DRESSLER It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
MARIE DRESSLER I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand m...
MARIE CURIE If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are t...
MARIE ANTOINETTE We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita...
MARIE CURIE I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MARIE CURIE Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
MARIE LAURENCIN Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the genera...
MARIE CURIE I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only ...
MARIE CURIE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. Th...
MARIE WINN We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I kn...
MARIE CURIE Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat...
MARIE CORELLI I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
MARIE CURIE Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job ...
MARIE BRENNER My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy...
MARIE KONDO During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one ...
MARIE CURIE Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell...
MARIE WINDSOR All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...
MARIE CURIE We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...
MARIE CURIE Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c...
MARIE CURIE Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.
MARIE HELVIN I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MARIE CURIE Let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things...
MARIE OSMOND I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, ...
MARIE CURIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ...
MARIE CURIE Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits p...
MARIE KONDO Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all t...
MARIE CORELLI It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha...
TEENA MARIE The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment...
MARIE KONDO As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
MARIE HELVIN I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
MARIE BRENNER I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in H...
MARIE HELVIN Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop&#...
MARIE HELVIN This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
MARIE WINDSOR We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I thin...
MARIE OSMOND Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure ...
MARIE KONDO Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?
MARIE LU What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
MARIE LU I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
MARIE LU It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and conv...
MARIE KONDO In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, th...
MARIE CURIE I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don'...
TEENA MARIE Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació...
MARIE NDIAYE You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at ...
MARIE LU Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the ...
MARIE LU But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?
MARIE ANTOINETTE Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!
DEE MARIE It's not across the board but it will apply to almost all of GM's mid-sized cars,
ANNE MARIE Community-based enrollment is the true success story of New York's program, and it has changed peopl...
ANNE MARIE It has definitely gone more upscale in recent years, and some of the smaller family owned places hav...
ANNE MARIE There are a lot of things that have changed with the way people use libraries, ... We really need to...
ANNE MARIE I ran away when I was 18 and now I still can't stop hurting myself because of the pain he caused me,...
ANNE MARIE It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE We cannot comment on speculation. I have not heard that,
ANNE MARIE There were strong doubts about whether this was an appropriate thing for regional companies to be do...
ANNE MARIE It has been a pleasure to work with Cablevision and combine our talents and resources to create soft...
ANNE MARIE We are blessed, ... Many people back in New Orleans, they don't have anything. We feel gratitude for...
ANNE MARIE They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I sign...
TEENA MARIE You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.
MARIE ANTOINETTE In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the...
MARIE CURIE Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence...
MARIE CURIE After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense...
MARIE CURIE When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
MARIE OSMOND No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.
MARIE ANTOINETTE All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
TEENA MARIE For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
MARIE WINDSOR You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful w...
MARIE CORELLI My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.
MARIE HELVIN I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, ...
MARIE HELVIN I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
MARIE WINDSOR Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about th...
MARIE WINDSOR You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MARIE CURIE I'm known for my big hair and curls.
MARIE HELVIN The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them...
MARIE EDGEWORTH If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside ...
MARIE LU We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and inn...
MARIE LU I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.
MARIE LU If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
MARIE DRESSLER My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of...
MARIE HELVIN When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
BROOKLYN MARIE I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
CONSTANCE MARIE You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I c...
MARIE LU My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell ...
MARIE HELVIN To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outliv...
MARIE KONDO I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of takin...
MARIE OSMOND My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and s...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Well enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be lusting ove...
MARIE LU Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things...
MARIE KONDO I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape,...
MARIE LU I trusted in friendship rather than love
MARIE CORELLI I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.
MARIE CORELLI There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can lea...
MARIE KONDO Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care o...
MARIE CURIE You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
MARIE LU In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic...
MARIE CURIE I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had ...
MARIE KONDO Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By d...
MARIE KONDO I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
MARIE WINDSOR The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world per...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to exam...
MARIE KONDO You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."...
MARIE LU You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal pe...
MARIE LU I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart a...
MARIE LU Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.
MARIE LU My name is June Iparis.
MARIE LU I am June Iparis, I remind myself.
MARIE LU He doesn't know who I am.
MARIE LU She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.
MARIE LU Even in the dark, I see hints of a smile creep onto her face.
“Yeah. You are a smooth talker....
MARIE LU Keep at it, Junebug—someday, you’ll shake the Republic to its very core. You’ll be absolutely ...
MARIE LU I feel the pulse of our bond and history and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the retur...
MARIE LU Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
MARIE LU I took an oath June. I am still bound by that oath. I will die with honor for sacrificing everything...
MARIE LU He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.
MARIE LU Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be you...
MARIE LU You are a light,” she replies gently. “And when you shine, you shine bright.
MARIE LU I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something ...
MARIE LU The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.
MARIE CORELLI Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
MARIE LU One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
MARIE CURIE You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us mu...
MARIE CURIE To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very diffe...
MARIE LENERU Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
MARIE CURIE People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a gala...
MARIE HELVIN At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested ...
MARIE BRENNAN I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try diffe...
MARIE HELVIN I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I ...
TEENA MARIE It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily...
MARIE ANTOINETTE