Katlyn Charlesworth

“I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.”

“It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.”

“They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.”

“She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.”

“If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.”

“Some girls are sweeter… Others have a tinge of bitterness… It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson.”

“Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.”

“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind.A place where the sun rose in the west and set in the east, where the mountains bowed to the wind like trees, and the rain sprinkled up from the ground below and onto the clouds above. A place where no one hurt or lost, or felt any tinge of desperation. A place where heartbeats were the only words needed, and music floated on the wind like dust.A place where no place was home. Where a single person could be the only sustenance needed to survive. A place where there were no yesterdays or todays, only tomorrows. A place for me to find solace, an escape from the real world I was forced to live in.”

“As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.”

“Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.”

“You can’t worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.”

“Her heart is of a much harder material... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly…And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves.”

“In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.”

“And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.”

“Change is inevitable. And in a way, change is a sort of magic. However, not everyone believes in something as frugal as the unexplained.”