💬 Quotes

"The pearl has become my soul. If I give it up I shall lose my soul."

"Every man has a pearl within him, and if he finds it, he is ruined."

"And the evil song was in his ears, shrill and unrelenting."

"If I give it up, I shall be a man. But the pearl is a woman's dream, and I am its slave."

"Love is not a request for permission. It is a demand for existence."

"Destiny is a funny thing; it doesn’t ask if you’re ready for the burden, it just places it on your shoulders and expects you to carry the weight."

"The darkness inside is not an enemy to be defeated, but a shadow to be walked with."

"You think you are protecting her by keeping her away, but you are only starving both of your souls."

"There is no nobility in suffering alone when you have been offered a hand to hold."

"We are defined not by the blood we were born into, but by the blood we choose to protect."

"Sometimes you have to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself."

"The cage wasn't locked. I just kept closing the door."

"I am not a mother, a wife, or a daughter first. I am a woman, and I belong to myself."

"Beautiful, damned, chaotic life. It is the only thing we have, and it is entirely ours."

"We are all untamed, hidden beneath layers of what we were told we should be."

"You don't have to be a martyr to be a good person. You don't have to suffer to prove your worth."

"Let all men despise me, for the more they despise me, the less they will fear me, and the less they fear me, the longer I shall live."

"I am Claudius the idiot, the stammerer, the fool; I am the butt of the court, the laughing-stock of the legionaries, and the despair of my grandmother."

"Power is a poison, and it is a poison that most men drink greedily, not knowing that it will slowly wither their souls."

"Rome is a city of masks, and those who wear the heaviest ones are usually the ones who hold the most precarious grip on reality."