Charlesworth Quotes & Sayings

Mothers cry in anguish
and fathers curse in anger,
while others turn away in sadness,
all for the children who are lost. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I love you, Jemmaline Girard. I always have and I always will. You are my future and my forever. You have already claimed the deepest part of my soul, femme de mon coeur. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Oh, she's still here;
she's just not as pretty ... anymore. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Some girls are sweeter ... Others have a tinge of bitterness ... It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson. — Katlyn Charlesworth

How can one fight for a love that acts as the enemy? — Katlyn Charlesworth

Jemma, I know that we have known each other for only a few short weeks, but I feel as if I have known you all my life. This courtship may have been arranged at the beginning, but my love for you is truer than ever. So, I ask you, my love, as a man would rightly ask the woman he wishes to be his wife, if you will marry me. Don't say yes because of the original arrangement, say yes because you want to. I will love you forever Jemma Girard, and I would never force you to stay in an arrangement you did not want. If you wish it, we can eliminate the plans of marriage. I stood there in a breathless shock, staring at this wonderful and handsome young man who loved me enough to let me go. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Some of the braver say I am mad. — Katlyn Charlesworth

War is a terrible, bloody thing. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Her heart is of a much harder material ... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly ...
And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. — Sarah Charlesworth

I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell. — Katlyn Charlesworth

You're right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding." Theo snorted, turning to Penny, "His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn't the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, 'Surprise! — Katlyn Charlesworth

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's. — Katlyn Charlesworth

You can't worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I am afraid, my dear niece, that a 'mere woman' is something you most certainly are not. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Future is a meaningless word if you don't give your heart and soul to your dreams. What happens to us is never etched in stone, but determined by what we want to happen ... Death is inevitable, but life is what we can avoid, if we so choose. — Katlyn Charlesworth

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes ... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing ... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs. — Sarah Charlesworth

It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe. — Katlyn Charlesworth

She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it. — Sarah Charlesworth

The wheel of Rome spins constantly. Gods rise and fall, mortals live and die, and round and round we go. We all play a part in that wheel ... And I make sure the wheel never stops spinning. You see, if the wheel stops, balance is lost. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time ... one second-glance to warm our spirits and soothe our aching hearts. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind.
A place where the sun rose in the west and set in the east, where the mountains bowed to the wind like trees, and the rain sprinkled up from the ground below and onto the clouds above.
A place where no one hurt or lost, or felt any tinge of desperation.
A place where heartbeats were the only words needed, and music floated on the wind like dust.
A place where no place was home. Where a single person could be the only sustenance needed to survive.
A place where there were no yesterdays or todays, only tomorrows. A place for me to find solace, an escape from the real world I was forced to live in. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot's niece, and a dead man's daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool. — Katlyn Charlesworth

He held me as if I were his most prized possession and I could feel every beat of his heart against me, as we embraced, lovingly. I felt safer and more loved than I had ever thought I could feel, and I never wanted it to end. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Nothing makes sense in Rome. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Change is inevitable. And in a way, change is a sort of magic. However, not everyone believes in something as frugal as the unexplained. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Where do you go when you die twice-
lest a thousand deaths? — Katlyn Charlesworth

Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own. — Sarah Charlesworth

This kiss was of a different taste. Instead of the raw, angry, tear-salted heat we had both felt before, it was a kiss of pure adoration and was very, very sweet. — Katlyn Charlesworth

It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods."
"Yes, there are ... — Katlyn Charlesworth

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity. — Katlyn Charlesworth

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage. — Katlyn Charlesworth

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I wasn't exactly sure what to feel and think about the situation, but I knew that whatever was going to happen was out of anyone's control. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture ... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium. — Sarah Charlesworth

Come out, Yamiko,
come out... — Katlyn Charlesworth

She looked as if she knew exactly when the world would end. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Oh, the meadows were gold and the sky so blue,
I traveled down that pebble path I so well knew.
The sun shined on down through trees so green
And I picked white flowers for which I was so keen.
Oh sweet lilies of mine, the beauty you shine,
Over hilltops and streams below,
You bend in the breeze and bloom with ease,
In the morning as the dew starts to glow ... — Katlyn Charlesworth

Even freed men will do what they must in Rome. — Katlyn Charlesworth

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Now you can be a kikei, too. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The combined effects of mutation, natural selection and the random process of genetic drift cause changes in the composition of a population. Over a sufficiently long period of time, these cumulative effects alter the population's genetic make-up, and can thus greatly change the species' characteristics from those of its ancestors. — Brian Charlesworth

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war. — Katlyn Charlesworth

And most importantly, my dearest Jemma, I want you to remember the good times for those are what will keep you alive when all else is lost. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled — Ric Charlesworth

His name is Henry DuPont. He is two years older than you, very handsome, and wealthy. You'll make a good match. She said simply, as if she were choosing goose over chicken for supper. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I was in an empty field when I came across a tree. This tree was full of white blossoms and succulent cherries. The sun was shining and the breeze was blowing - everything was lovely. I looked back at the tree and its pure white blossoms were stained with blood. I gazed down in front of me, in horror, as a wooden cross marked the place of a small dirty mound. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Be careful, mon bijou. — Katlyn Charlesworth

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder. — Katlyn Charlesworth