Francesca Quotes

1. "Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal readers would have kissed and then read on."
Author: Alberto Manguel

2. "[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.'His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?'[Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it."
Author: Blake Charlton

3. "You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets."
Author: Blake Charlton

4. "The division of our culture is making us more obtuse than we need be: we can repair communications to some extent: but, as I have said before, we are not going to turn out men and women who understand as much of their world as Piero della Francesca did of his, or Pascal, or Goethe. With good fortune, however, we can educate a large proportion of our better minds so that they are not ignorant of the imaginative experience, both in the arts and in science, nor ignorant either of the endowments of applied science, of the remediable suffering of most of their fellow humans, and of the responsibilities which, once seen, cannot be denied."
Author: C.P. Snow

5. "Then he smiled again. In spite of herself, Francesca couldn't help noticing he looked much moreattractive when he smiled like this. "You," he said, "are quite a woman.""It's the Italian side of me," she replied, as if he had just paid her a great compliment."Indeed. I have rarely—" He paused with a sharp glance at her. "—never seen such blatantlymanaging behavior."Francesca tipped up her chin, smiling warmly at him. She knew the fight was lost but didn't want toleave with her tail between her legs. "Then shall I see you tomorrow, to begin our search?""I think not." Still smiling, he bowed his head. "Good day, Lady Gordon."
Author: Caroline Linden

6. "Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing."He reached around her and fingered the soft material. "Where is the rest of it?" He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing."
Author: Christine Feehan

7. "Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who was constantly preaching that "everything happened for a reason", but regardless she now spouted out that philosophy like she was paid to. Everything big in her life, she believed it was all a part of God's plan – it was all fate. So the way she saw it, it had to be fate that Paul came into her life like this."
Author: Courtney Carola

8. "Anything for you Francesca" ~Cade"
Author: Felicia Tatum

9. "The love of my life, Francesca Taymon, stood in front of me, staring into my would with her deep brown eyes."
Author: Felicia Tatum

10. "I'm sorry. I don't know how many times to tell you this for you to know it," I continued. "Francesca…the night you stayed with me was the best night of my life. I've never felt more alive, more loved, happier, than when I hold you in my arms. Seeing your face makes my heart beat faster, in a good way, and I feel this calmness come over me. I don't know why, but it's always been this way with you. I understand if you can't forgive me, and I know you could do better, but I'm going to try my damnedest to make it up to you when I get out of here. I don't care if it takes a year, or ten, or even twenty. I will make you see how much I care."
Author: Felicia Tatum

11. "...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed her legs.I didn't need a mirror to know my whole face had just turned red. With a hemline up to her thighs that gesture didn't leave anything to the imagination. Bones curled his fingers around mine and squeezed. His hand was still warmed from our contact moments ago. That's how fast he had to grab me again to keep me sitting where I was instead of yanking off my jacket to make her a pair of panties."
Author: Jeaniene Frost

12. "The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an intense instant a vision of denseness into which he was compacted and from which he could not escape, and had no wish to escape. Tristan, Iseult the fair, walked before him; Paolo and Francesca whirled in the glowing dark; Helen and bright Paris, their faces bitter with consequence, rose from the gloom. And he was with them in a way that he could never be with his fellows who went from class to class."
Author: John Edward Williams

13. "Francesca actually felt her chin drop. "Mother," she said, shaking her head, "you really should have stopped at seven.""Children, you mean?" Violet asked, sipping at her tea. "Sometimes I do wonder.""Mother!" Hyacinth exclaimed.Violet just smiled at her. "Salt?""It took her eight tries to get it right," Hyacinth announced, thrusting the salt cellar at her mother with a decided lack of grace."And does that mean that you, too, hope to have eight children?" Violet inquired sweetly."God no," Hyacinth said. With great feeling. And neither she nor Francesca could quite resist a chuckle after that."
Author: Julia Quinn

14. "Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet.Michael: Never stopped John and me.Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen."
Author: Julia Quinn

15. "Oh, God, Francesca,Now there's a good one.Why?Why? Why?" He gave each one a different tenor, as if he were testing out the word, asking it todifferent people."Why?" he asked again, this time with increased volumeas he turned around to face her."Why? It'sbecause I love you, damn me to hell. Because I've always loved you. Because I loved you when youwere with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don't deserve you, but Ilove you, anyway."Francesca sagged against the door."How's that for a witty little joke?" he mocked. "I loveyou. I loveyou, my cousin's wife. I loveyou, theone woman I can never have. I loveyou, Francesca Bridger-ton Stirling."
Author: Julia Quinn

16. "Francesca couldn't say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and soinstead they stood there as they always did, thinking the same thing but never speaking of it, wonderingwhich of them hurt more."
Author: Julia Quinn

17. "Francesca,' he murmured, making his voice smooth and personable, 'it is a delight to see you.''And you as well,' she replied. She smiled then, but it was in an amused sort of fashion, and he had the unexpected sense that she was mocking him. But there seemed little to be gained by pointing this out; it would only demonstrate how attuned he was to her every expression."
Author: Julia Quinn

18. "And what renders him so unmarriageable?" Eloise asked.Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael."Well?" Eloise prodded."He could never remain faithful to one woman," Fran-cesca said, "and I doubt you?d be willing to put up with infidelities.""No," Eloise murmured, "not unless he?d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury."
Author: Julia Quinn

19. "I?m going to kill her," Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present."Who are you talking to?" Hyacinth demanded."God," Francesca said baldly. "And I do believe I have been given divine leave to murder you.""Hmmph," was Hyacinth?s response. "If it was that easy, I?d have asked permission to eliminate half the ton years ago."Francesca decided just then that not all of Hyacinth?s statements required a rejoinder. In fact, few of them did."
Author: Julia Quinn

20. "Eloiseis getting married as well.""Eloise?" Michael asked with some surprise. "Was she even being courted by anyone?""No," Francesca said, quickly flipping to the third sheet of her mother?s letter. "It?s someone she?s never met.""Well, I imagine she?s met him now," Michael said in a dry voice."
Author: Julia Quinn

21. "Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca"
Author: Lauren Kate

22. "We should have given up years ago. It's so clear now. We should have "explored other options." We should have adopted. We gave up years of our lives and we very nearly destroyed our marriage. Our happy ending could have and should have arrived so much sooner. And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant."
Author: Liane Moriarty

23. "And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much."
Author: Liane Moriarty

24. "I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after."
Author: Lisa Scottoline

25. "Sometimes he feels a pull towards Francesca. She was the reason he came into the group. It was her misery that united them and somehow her personality that kept them together when everyone split. She's the one that writes the letter to kept the world informed. She listens to the news every hour to make sure everyone's safe. So tonight he walks away even though she's moved forward to give him a hug. Because he wants to kiss her, and knows she'll hate him for it and that he'll hate himself. He knows it's for all the wrong reasons and that he'll end up thinking of Tara Finke and her Brazilian peacekeeper and will Trombal and how he doesn't do romance, but it eats the space between him and Francesca every time he's in the room with her."
Author: Melina Marchetta

26. "You shy, Francesca?" Javier asks me later on.I shake my head. "Not really." I'm just sad, I want to say. And I'm lonely."
Author: Melina Marchetta

27. "She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair."
Author: Melina Marchetta

28. "He came third in the state for woodwork,"Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times."
Author: Melina Marchetta

29. "No, the time for you to stand in my place will come soon enough. Not yet. I need you here. Eliand I will go, and that's as it should be. I'll bring Francesca, Gina and the children back with me ifthey want it. God help us if they do," she finished with spirit and got to her feet"
Author: Nora Roberts

30. "For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine."
Author: Rae Hachton

31. "This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you."
Author: Robert James Waller

32. "Francesca said nothing, wondering about a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, who got excited about sky color, who wrote a little poetry but not much fiction. Who played the guitar, who earned his living by images and carried his tools in knapsacks. Who seemed like the wind. And moved like it. Came from it, perhaps."
Author: Robert James Waller

33. "Who are you?''My name is Francesca Giordano.'Il re dei contrabbandieri paled. He pressed himself into the high back of his chair and stared at me in disbelief.'You can't be her. She's old and has warts.''Because she is strega? Ask yourself, why would any self-respecting witch go about looking old and with warts?"
Author: Sara Poole

34. "Truly, Francesca, if all women were like you, I would become a Turk solely for the purpose of assembling a harem."
Author: Sara Poole

35. "Would you like tickets for tonight's tour? (Andrei)Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta)That's American slang for ‘no thank you. (Francesca)Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for ‘no fucking way.' (Andrei)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

36. "Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

37. "Why did you marry him then? (Francesca)I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I thought he was a noble prince. I had no idea he was barely one step up from a monkey. I take that back and I deeply apologize to all the primates of the earth for insulting them. He's not worthy of monkeydom. He's a slimy slug trail. (Esperetta)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

38. "Fat bitch," Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone."She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you're too thin.""Since when is Mrs. Stone an authority on appearance. I've heard you say a thousand times that she looks like an old hooker.""I never said anything of the sort. What I said was that she wears too much makeup and her clothes are indiscreet.""Which means she looks like an old hooker. Well, if that's the way a woman is supposed to look, I'd rather be too skinny." Kessa felt a flash of pleasure at the argument. Just let her mother try to push food into her now."
Author: Steven Levenkron

39. "This morning Kessa was in control again. She lifted her left breast with her right hand and pinched it hard. The girl in the mirror began to cry. Francesca Louise began to cry. Two rivers of water streamed down either side of Francesca Louise's nose. "Coward," Kessa hissed at the crying girl. "Queen Francesca Louise, queen of the cowards, queen of nothing, queen of nobody. You're finished, ended, dead." Kessa was still pinching and the girl in the mirror was still crying. "Good-bye forever, Francesca Louise."
Author: Steven Levenkron

40. "By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are … what again? Something ["Francesca Lia Block and her post-apocalyptic year, http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketco..."]."
Author: Taffy Brodesser Akner

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