Maidens Quotes - Page 7

• I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

  Varg Vikernes

  Loss, Iron, Band

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  War, Hands, Lovers

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

  Nelson DeMille

  Names, Use, Want

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• ...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

  Libba Bray

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• This maiden she lived with no other thought
  Than to love and be loved by me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Famous Love

  "Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

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• It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

  Laini Taylor

  Dragons, Monsters, Village

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Princess, Sleep, Dark

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• My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

  Alice Walker

  Memories, Grandmother, Virginia

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Fall, Bird

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.346, Macmillan

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• A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Grows

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.464

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• Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

  Tanith Lee

  Jobs, Saint, Tough

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• Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

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• Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

  Tony Benn

  White, Gowns, Would Be

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• He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Iron, Fans, Concerts

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.132, Vintage Canada

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• Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Voice, Bed

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Dirty

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
  Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
  From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore -
  For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore -
  Nameless here for evermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Angel, Names

  "The Raven" l. 7 (1845)

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• What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Towns, Youth, Nature Beauty

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Queens, Glasses, Alcohol

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

  Ron Killings

  Gentleman, Superstar, Vicinity

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• 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

  Walter Scott

  Love, Revenge, Fate

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.95

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• We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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