Victoria QUOTES

1 " The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.
-Roger Sullivan "

― Morgan Matson , Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

2 " Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. " It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. " Don't tell me," he said. " The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. " What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. " Am I the newest thing in this apartment?" " I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two." " I said newest, not youngest," Alec snapped. "

3 " Whenever Elliot Norther’s wife was nervous she baked. With the murder of Harriet Mason, her husband’s close colleague at the Faculty, she had been unable to resist a couple of Victoria sponges. During the frenzied press speculation about the identity of the murderer, a Dundee cake had appeared, followed swiftly by a Battenberg and a Lemon Drizzle. Since news of the Wildencrust murder broke, the kitchen, dining room and study had come to resemble the storerooms of an industrial bakery, every surface heaving with the weight of sponge and cream. Yesterday, having at last been overwhelmed by the fear and rumour that swept the town, she had taken herself off to her mother’s house in Hampstead, leaving her husband to soldier on alone. When he had last seen his wife, Elliot Norther noticed that she had been putting the finishing touches to an impressive, triple-tiered wedding cake, beating a batch of royal icing into a sickly paste. "

4 " The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. "

― Mick Jagger

5 " One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. "

― Patricia Briggs , Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)

6 " [Queen Victoria had been denouncing the Women's Rights movement] ... And after chloroform was introduced to ease the pains of childbirth, she demanded that it be used on her. Religious and medical conservatives were shocked. They said God had decreed that women must suffer in childbirth as atonement for the sins of Eve. But queen Victoria wouldn't accept this particular anti-woman's-rights dictum. She became one of the first women to use anesthesia during childbirth , and knighted Dr. James Simpson, the Scottish physician who developed this use of chloroform, though he was excommunicated by his church for doing so. "

7 " ...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, " Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves. "

8 " So how long have you been together? Two months?'
'Five.'
'Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as well get married. I should buy a hat.'
'Don't. They give away your Spock ears.'
She laughed. 'This is the Romanian girl?'
'Croatian.'
'Right. She's a painter?'
'Photographer.'
'Right.' She studied him.
'What?' he laughed self-consciously as though he was a twelve-year-old boy who'd just been caught with his first girlfriend.
'Nothing.'
'Come on.'
'I don't know Steve,' she cut into her meat, 'you've changed. You no longer write about Victoria Beckham and you have a girlfriend. I think...'
'You think what?'
'I don't know, I might be jumping the gun here, but I think there's a possibility you might not be gay after all.'
A chip was hurled at her head. "

― Cecelia Ahern , One Hundred Names

9 " Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air. "

10 " Since there was nowhere else he wanted to be and no one else he wanted touching him, Drake shot Gabriel a smug look over his shoulder as he let Victoria take him wherever she wanted. "

― Katie Reus , Taste of Darkness (Darkness, #2)

11 " Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Flies to Wanton Boys

12 " I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire." Go away!" screamed Devnee.He did not answer." I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. " Victoria was kind for me." He laughed." No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. " But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team. "

13 " I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci "

14 " Nice dress,” Victoria said.
“Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”
Victoria blinked. “Uh, what? "

― Benjamin R. Smith , Atlas

15 " The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun. "

― Benjamin R. Smith , Atlas

16 " I was so happy … before.’
‘I find that happiness can always be recollected in tranquillity, Ma’am,’ said Melbourne.
Victoria put her hands down and looked up at him, her pale blue eyes searching his face. ‘You were happy too?’
When Melbourne spoke, it was in the voice not of the urbane Prime Minister, but of a man of advancing years who is facing the loss of the only thing that is still capable of bringing him joy. ‘You know I was, Ma’am. "

― Daisy Goodwin , Victoria

17 " Note Worthy: Thought's of Victoria Short Story 3: Until Death Do Us Part.
If you keep your mind busy, then you do not have time to stop and stop and feel all the pain and sadness. If you stay busy you do not think of all the countless memories that flood your mind. Because when those memories pop in your head all you wish for… all you ache for is to hold that person in your arms close. To squeeze them tight and never let go. Only you can’t. You never can ever again. No matter how bad you want too. "

― Brenda Lee Compton , God's Amazing Grace: A Collection of Inspirational Poems and Stories

18 " When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, " I don't hate you." She called me an effing liar and said, " Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate." " I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost. "

19 " Darling," he said distractedly," about the moon..." " Yes?" " I don't think it matters whether you want it or not." " What are you talking about?" " The moon. I think it's yours." Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. " Fine. i'm glad to have it." " But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody.But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case "

20 " The same beautiful receptionist greeted Christian who had met him before and she extended the same lush invitation as she had the last time. Victoria's eyes narrowed and Christian chuckled under his breath at her jealousy." Relax chérie, she's paid to do that." " Well, she didn't come on to me, so obviously she's not doing her job properly," Victoria said. Christian laughed. "

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