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Tosca Quotes By Rita Dove

I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life. — Rita Dove

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

understanding. Do we wish our children to do as they are told forever, simply because we told them what they should do, or because they fear punishment? Or do we hope that they grow in understanding to discern for themselves and freely choose right? — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

have begun to despair that even love is like this. That it is all and only the transaction of agreement. 'I will love you if you please me.' 'I will love you if you desire no other.' 'I will love you if . . .' and so on and so on." I said it, because it was true. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Sondra Radvanovsky

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca. — Sondra Radvanovsky

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering inside. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Reno

Remember that a healthy body is built or destroyed one decision at a time. It's up to you. — Tosca Reno

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

The adam and I had pondered the death many times since the day he brought me here. But despite our musing about an end of life and our search for evidence of death among fallen and decomposing fruit and the compost of leaves and the refuse of our industry, which we gathered to enrich the soil, I understood the death less well than the explosion that had filled the universe at its incarnation. In fact, every evidence of degrading life seemed only to point back to the sustenance of the living so that I grasped the idea of the death less and less the more I meditated upon it. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

a girl in her twenties who might have been pretty had she refrained from drawing her eyebrows on with a marker. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

Yes, I call your beautiful world mutant and perverse. So would you if you had seen the original. If you had, you would know how far we've all veered, how like a cancer things have grown. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested."

I waited.

She waited.

I raised my brows. "And?"

Her mouth curved into a smile. "You think I'm pretty, don't you. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

I stared. "But you're saying--"

"Yes, Clay" - her mouth smoothed into a chilly smile - "Image of El, breath of God. In such an unworthy vessel. Something far more precious than diamonds, denied even to us but entrusted to a container of mud. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar
and so very sad: What is this you have done? — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

I will protect you all the days of my life. You will be the mother of all who live and the giver of life to the seed spoken by the One -- the seed that will strike the offspring of the serpent. The One has said it, Isha...today I name you Havah, because you will live, and all who live will come from you, and you will give birth to hope. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

God has a story to tell about you.
A major part of it is you telling yours. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

We longed for this world. We coveted it, and we hoped. Even Lucifer, though he wouldn't say it, looked on with greed-softened eyes, infatuated. I deluded myself into thinking that yes, perhaps Elohim had taken him back. Perhaps Elohim had forgotten all, would set him up as a god over this rich and wild new world. The next blessings to come from El would be his, and ours." He shook his head with a brittle laugh, the sound slightly too high-pitched for such a big man.

We had skirted the MIT campus to arrive on Main, a block from my office building.

"And why weren't they? Why couldn't they be?"

He pulled over, put the car in park, and turned to look at me.

"Because then he created them."

"Them?"

"You. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Marianne Faithfull

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. — Marianne Faithfull

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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

Tosca Quotes By Frank Bidart

- No one knows why. Perhaps her mind,
ravenous, still insatiable, sensed
that to struggle with the shreds of a voice
must make her artistry subtler, more refined,
more capable of expressing humiliation,
rage, betrayal ...
- Perhaps the opposite. Perhaps her spirit
loathed the unending struggle
to embody itself, to manifest itself, on a stage whose
mechanics, and suffocating customs,
seemed expressly designed to annihilate spirit ...
- I know that in Tosca, in the second act,
when, humiliated, hounded by Scarpia,
she sang Vissi d'arte
- "I lived for art" -
and in torment, bewilderment, at the end she asks,
with a voice reaching
harrowingly for the notes,
"Art has repaid me LIKE THIS? — Frank Bidart

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Reno

You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change. — Tosca Reno

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Reno

Make it a principle for yourself to no longer accept negativity. — Tosca Reno

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

In the beginning there was God...but for me there was Adam. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Ted Dekker

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead! — Ted Dekker

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your eighty-something life spans, and that's a best-case scenario, isn't it? — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

I had sought love. I had talked of love, not knowing that it is one step beyond wisdom into the face of God. And this was the only salvation. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

The passing of every moment since has disconcerted me. See the clock on the dash?" He tapped it. "You're deaf to it, to the death of each second. But I am not. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Reno

Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food. — Tosca Reno

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Reno

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet. — Tosca Reno

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

our love is proved when we love those who are not beautiful, who wound with word or deed. When we love not out of pity, or even for their sakes, but for our own. And here is the secret: they do not wound us, as Yaweh does not wound us. We wound ourselves by allowing the offense. And so Yaweh commands forgiveness for our own healing. Because in honoring ourselves - and others as ourselves - we please and honor Yaweh, who looks not on what a person does, but on the heart." I — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

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. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

How is one statute against murder or rape or theft different from any other?" I said, though my mind had careened into a hundred different questions. "They are different in that they come from a god who says we are to show honor of him by honoring others. And so as we feed our hungry neighbor and do not steal from him we honor not our neighbor, but the image of the One who fashioned him. You say our god has no face. This is not true. Yaweh's face is before us in every person we see, as we are made in his image. Living people who require more kindness and adoration than any idol. — Tosca Lee

Tosca Quotes By Tosca Lee

How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart. — Tosca Lee