💬 Quotes

"For they were fated to be ever restless, and their hearts were ever turned towards the sea, for the love of the West."

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested."

"The Court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and it dismisses you when you go."

"Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living."

"You are arguing like a child, K. You have no perspective on the matter, you are simply misled by your own fears."

"Before the Law sits a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country who begs for admittance to the Law."

"Like a dog! he said; it was as if the shame of it must outlive him."

"You can't hide what's in your heart, Paul. Not from the people who need to see it, and certainly not from God."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"I was a Boleyn girl, and I had been taught that we were the most beautiful, the most clever, and the most accomplished of all the girls at court."

"You are my sister, Mary, and you are my rival. In this court, there is no room for both."

"I will be Queen of England. I will be the greatest woman in Christendom. And you, Mary, will be nothing but a footnote in the history of my triumph."

"The King does not love you, Mary. He loves the power he wields over you, and the comfort you provide when his appetite is sated."

"It is a dangerous thing to be a woman in this court, and a more dangerous thing still to be a Boleyn woman, for we are built for climbing and prone to falling."

"I had been the King's mistress, the woman he had discarded for my own sister. I had learned that to survive in this world, one must know when to step into the light and when to retreat into the shadows."

"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters."

"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

"You are an exile, Brett. You belong among your own kind. You have the wrong attitude."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills."