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The Sleeper and the Spindle QUOTES

The Sleeper and the Spindle QUOTES

1 " You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

2 " She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

3 " I like stories where women save themselves. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

4 " It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

5 " Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another’s, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

6 " Names. Names. The old woman squinted, then she shook her head. She was herself, and the name she had been born with had been eaten by time and lack of use. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

7 " She called for her fiance and told him not to take on so, and that they would still be married, even if he was but a prince and she a queen, and she chucked him beneath his pretty chin and kissed him until he smiled. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

8 " There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

9 " But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

10 " Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another's, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

11 " Well,” said the third. “Somebody’s got to do the honours.” “I shall,” said the queen, gently. She lowered her face to the sleeping woman’s. She touched the pink lips to her own carmine lips and she kissed the sleeping girl long and hard. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

12 " A la reina le había costado aprender a ser fuerte, a sentir sus propias emociones y no las de otra persona; pero quien aprende esa lección ya nunca lo olvida. Y ella no deseaba gobernar continentes”. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

13 " There are choices, she thought, when she had sat long enough. There are always choices.

She made one. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

14 " children. Perhaps she would die in childbirth, perhaps she would die as an old woman, or in battle. But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

15 " A vuelo de pájaro, era el reino más cercano al de la reina,
pero ni siquiera los pájaros volaban sobre él". "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

16 " Hizo llamar también a su prometido y le dijo que no se preocupara, que tenía intención de seguir adelante con la boda aunque él fuera sólo un príncipe y ella una reina, y, tras darle unos tironcillos bajo la hermosa barbilla, lo besó hasta lograr que sonriera. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

17 " Hoe wilden ze haar dan wakker maken,' vroeg de middelste dwerg, die nog altijd zijn edelsteen vastklemde, want hij vond hoofdzaken belangrijk.
'Op de gebruikelijke manier,' zei de dienstmeid blozend. 'Zo gaan de verhalen tenminste.'
'Juist,' zei de grootste dwerg. 'Dus door een kom koud water in haar gezicht te gooien en heel hard "Wakker worden!" te roepen? "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle

18 " Goed,' zei de dwerg met de bruine baard. 'Als we pal naar het westen lopen kunnen we aan het eind van de week bij de bergen zijn, en dan ben je binnen tien dagen weer in je paleis in Kanselaire.'
'Ja,' zei de koningin... Er zijn keuzes, dacht ze toen ze lang genoeg had gezeten. Er zijn altijd keuzes.
Ze maakte er een.
De koningin begon te lopen en de dwergen volgden haar.
'Je weet toch wel dat we naar het oosten lopen, hè?' vroeg een van de dwergen.
'Jazeker,' zei de koningin.
'Dan is het goed,' zei de dwerg.
Ze liepen naar het oosten, met z'n vieren, weg van de zonsondergang en het land dat ze kenden, de nacht in. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Sleeper and the Spindle