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The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2) QUOTES

The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2) QUOTES

1 " You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language. There is a heightened sensitivity in you, to be sure, but you can embrace it. It’s far more than just a nervous condition, these tears you shed when you read of Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s fall. You are a rare and beautiful thing, Sibyl. For most people, words are just symbols for sounds, made on paper. For you, they can create all new worlds in your mind. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

2 " For most people, words are just symbols for sounds, made on paper. For you, they can create all new worlds in your mind. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

3 " You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

4 " our soul, once set free, seeks only to return. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

5 " And we are this, this only, this ecstasy that flesh can give to flesh. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

6 " All over the lawn, the immortals had begun to wither and decompose, creating little pockets of chaos among the guests. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

7 " I am your queen,” the woman answered. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

8 " You see, sometimes, Alex, we have to lose things to learn compassion. And sometimes we are overcome by change that arrives with some measure of violence, but leaves us transformed for the better. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

9 " There is no heaven. There is no hell. There is no above or below. If there is a realm beyond this one, it is no more beautiful, no more significant, no more full of truth, than ours here on earth. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

10 " I have named them the hounds of Sisyphus. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

11 " This is what love is, isn’t it? It’s not a thing for which you clear a certain space in your life. It takes over your life, and all else must be made to fit to it, or the result is endless grief or a willful numbness that results in the death of your spirit before your body. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

12 " This is what love is, isn’t it? It’s not a thing for which you clear a certain space in your life. It takes over your life, and all else must be made to fit to it, or the result is endless grief or a willful numbness that results in the death of your spirit before your body. I have seen this truth in the eyes of Julie and Ramsey. And I see it in your eyes when I look at "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

13 " except how much all of us give up in this life, sooner or later, because we can never have all that we want. You’ll find out soon enough. We’re blessed, my dear. Quite blessed, but no life is without sacrifices. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

14 " Call me Ramses the Damned. For that is the name I have given myself. But I was once Ramses the Great of Upper and Lower Egypt, slayer of the Hittites, father of many sons and daughters, who ruled Egypt for sixty-four years. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

15 " Ah, so much to ponder. But not now. Now was the time for the conjugal blessing of this new abode. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

16 " pray "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)

17 " But when you feel as if you are but a dry leaf carried by the endless winds of time, and you can bear the thought of what seems like a haphazard wandering no longer, you must go where there is pain and seek to alleviate it. "

― Anne Rice , The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)