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1 " It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our power when we are strong enough to survive it. The priests have no tolerance for those of us driven by the divine madness of questions. And so our stories are blackend from the fire of righteous indignation by those who envy our imagined fornications. We become temptresses, harlots, and heretics.I have been all and none of these, depending on who tells the tale. "
― Tosca Lee , The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
2 " The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense. "
3 " I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence. "
4 " A mist crept into the valley—how could this be, by the light of the climbing sun? It drifted over the form in the grass, nearly obscuring it, seeming to draw all sound into itself. I thought I might burst from the strain of that silence... until a single sound shattered it:The gasp of an indrawn breath. "
― Tosca Lee , Havah: The Story of Eve
5 " There is beauty in the world still. Even now. And it's worth saving for that reason alone. "
― Tosca Lee , A Single Light (The Line Between #2)
6 " Even though he did not hear me sometimes so that I had to repeat my questions a second or third time. By then my tone was as abrasive as the coarse hair or the boar. How he annoyed me! "
7 " Not yet," he wailed, as raw as the earth. "But you lay as though already dead, and I cannot go on without you. Do not leave me; do not die!" And I felt a grief from him to melt the mountain ice. Grief to drown in. Grief to both rend my heart and mend it at once. "
8 " And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber. "
9 " How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart. "
10 " The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done? "
11 " I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary. "
12 " My purpose for living, my role in this great scheme was clear to me from the first: to fall down, to worship, to praise, to wait upon the word of El.""That sounds really boring.""Really? Imagine the bliss of fulfilling one's created purpose. "
― Tosca Lee , Demon
13 " I wanted to be alone with the One. The One who scaled then careened from the heights of the Mount. The One who raised up the man from the mud. The One who fashioned me from a part of the man and knew me more intimately than even the adam. "
14 " You are necessary to that end, and to me...you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of the One. And if you have wronged, then I have surely repaid your wrong twice over. "
15 " A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing. "
16 " My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want. "
― Tosca Lee
17 " Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked. "
18 " I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best be identified with the creativity of the female heart. "
19 " In the beginning there was God...but for me there was Adam. "
20 " I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well...In the morning when I stirred, I knew...I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not alone. "
