Vespers Quotes

“Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.”
― Gordon Korman, Vespers Rising

“You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only quick studies of course. But my agent in Florence tells me this artist, Leonardo, is a master and also quite an inventor of mechanical devices--which, as you know, are my passion. Leonardo just completed a portrait of Lisa de Giocondo. He calls it the Mona Lisa. I thought I might commission him to do a portrait of me, and while he's here, I can pick his mind for mechanical secrets. How does that sound?"
"Expensive," Gideon murmured.”
― Rick Riordan, Vespers Rising

“About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time for some tasty hay! Haaaaaaay!”
― Peter Lerangis, Vespers Rising

“Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.”
― Jeff Sampson, Vesper

“There were lights in the nave but they could do no more than splash pools of gold here and there, they could not illumine the shadows above or the dim unlighted chantries and half-seen tombs. The great pillars soared into darkness and the aisles narrowed to twilight. Candles twinkled in the choir and the high altar with its flowers was ablaze with them, but all the myriad flames were no more than seed pearls embroidered on a dark cloak.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch

“As he looked back at the fiery cascade, Gentry covered Nancy with his arms and chest to protect her from the burning bats.”
― Jeff Rovin, Vespers

“undo : if you’re bleeding
undo : if you’re sweating
undo : if you’re crying, darling
undo : undo”
― Björk, Vespertine