Eirene Quotes

I could see Eirene well enough to aim. SO I did. I aimed my weapon and thought of Bruno locked in a postcoital embrace with her. I embraced my jealousy. Then I pulled the trigger. - Celia Grave page 372

His fingers brushed the heartsfire earring on his left ear. In all the time of their estrangement, he had never removed it, wanting to feel that he still belonged to someone even if that someone no longer cared to own him.

My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzara, Queen of Astrea, and I will endure this

podría reconocer el tacto cálido y suave de Eirene en cualquier parte

May the gods bless Queen Eirene forever in the After, but until the end, she was the queen of a peaceful country. Her reign was largely untested and easy; she never had to know war until the Kalovaxians came and slit her throat. She had the luxury of being a sympathetic queen. You don't.

I bow before no one but my queen,” Ampelio whispers, tripping over the hard edges of the Kalovaxian language. Despite his low voice, his words carry throughout the room, followed by gasps and murmurs from the court. He raises his voice. “Long live Queen Theodosia Eirene Houzzara.

Hay cosas que no se curan con un par de pociones

Feathers fall; soft as a song, light as morning dreams.

Claiming to feel ‘eirenic’ (peace-seeking) and ‘ataraxic’ (serenely indiffererent) about Evans’ and Young’s act of perfidiousness, he declared: ‘I’m certainly issuing no instructions to staff about it. It will not be deemed an act of disloyalty to go and see

Do we have an actual plan?'     'Certainly.' She sounded faintly affronted. 'We shall attend the salon in the guise of Mr. Lutrell and his faithful secretary. That's you. Then I'll draw the subject aside in order to ask her some questions about her latest work and use my art, guile, and intense personal charisma to lead her into confessing any role she might have had in the blackmailing of Eirene.'     'That doesn't sound like a plan, so much as a sequence of conversations with tremendous scope to go wrong.'     She rose imperiously from the chaise. 'I am the sorceress Shaharazad Hass. I never go wrong. I merely achieve things in a manner I had not intended.

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

Now everything is white, like Venus, like tears upon lilies, like remembering a dream within another.

You can lock me up if you like. All I need is a coffee, a notebook and a pen. And I will be free.

Poetry is dreams made tangible and yet eternal.

The Greek word translated “peace” in the Scripture is eirene. This word is equivalent to the Hebrew word shalom. Essentially, eirene embodies completeness, wholeness, and an inner resting of the soul that does not fluctuate based on outside influences. A person who is at peace is someone who is stable, calm, orderly, and at rest within. The opposite of peace, of course, is inner chaos, anxiety, and worry. This

El futuro. Sí, el futuro es aterrador. Es una sombra difusa, negra, capaz de asustarnos aún en la lejanía. Capaz de reírse de nosotros, porque podemos intuir su forma pero nunca estar seguros de qué traerá cuando finalmente se convierta en presente.

Menta y manzanilla. Siento el rubor subiendo por mis mejillas y me pregunto cómo no se me ha ocurrido a mí. A eso supongo el beso que cerró nuestra boda, y a partir de ese todos los que vinieron y que me pasan como un torrente por la cabeza. El día del banquete con mi padre, cuando se lanzó sobre mi boca con ferocidad, dispuesto a arrebatarme el aliento. Todos los que abandonamos en labios del otro en la torre. En aquel momento me perdí en ese sabor. Menta. Menta y manzanilla.

Under the direction of the patriarch Niketas (741–775), iconoclasts removed figurative portraits (probably saints’ busts) from the council hall of the church of Hagia Sophia and replaced them with plain crosses.31 Already, by 743, Constantine V had rebuilt the earthquake-damaged church of Hagia Eirene and ordered its apse decorated with a simple, unadorned cross. Somewhat surprisingly, this cross has remained its sole decoration to this day.

These daughters of Zeus and Themis were: Eirene: The personification of peace Eunomia: The personification of law and order Dike: The personification of justice

Paul also reminds the Roman believers that “we have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1). Foerster helpfully writes, “The basic feature of the Greek concept of ‘eirene’ is that the word does not primarily denote a relationship between several people, or an attitude, but a state, i.e., ‘time of peace’ or ‘state of peace’ originally conceived of purely as an interlude in the everlasting state of war.

I am Theodosia Eirene Houzzara," I tell him. "and I am my people's only hope

They were named:{274} Eunomia, “Lawful Order”; Dike, “Just Retribution”; and Eirene, “Peace”. Such were the gifts that these goddesses, whom Zeus begat upon Themis, brought into the world.

Between sky and dream lies the truth.

Memories lose their power when you forgive.