Gypsies Quotes

“For gypsies do not like to stay -
They only come to go away.”
― Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies

“For all that, I don’t think Gypsies ought to be likened to birds of ill-omen. They return evil for evil, and good for good. One hundredfold. Their powers seem to exceed them. I knew some in Spain who could read the stars; in Germany, who could heal burns; in the Camargue, who tended horses and could lessen the birthing pains of both women and beasts.

There are some human beings who are not bound by human laws. The sad thing is perhaps they’re not all aware of it.

Meanwhile, here’s an idea I volunteer: the day when the borders of Europe and elsewhere become, as they once were, open to the movement of nomadic tribes that some regard as ‘worrisome’, it would be interesting if researchers qualified in astronomy (yes, indeed), with calenders and terrestrial and celestial maps to hand, were to examine the routes travelled by wandering Gypsies.

Maybe they’ll discover that these slow and apparently aimless journeys are related to cosmic forces. Like wars. And migrations.

The Gypsies were persecuted, in France and elsewhere, with cyclical regularity in a vicious, inept and stupid manner. Almost as much as the Jews.”
― Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

“I am waiting for you in the living room... the very pink living room. I do hope that when we acquire a home of our own, after this nonsense has passed, you will not insist on bathing the entire space in shades of bubble gum.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“Kathel, you have the face of a scoundrel." Her eyes drifted slowly over his face and landed for a moment on his full lips. "With lips created for sin."
"Keirah," he whispered, gently squeezing her hands. "Talk like that is not helping matters.”
― Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence

“Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. "You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“Sleep, Maya," he murmured softly.

"Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“All creatures are capable of darkness, but not all choose to succumb to it.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“I'm not into werewolves, but holy crap is he a hottie. Totally gorgeous and built like a tank. I bet he's got one down to his---”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“The fact that he got to save the Gwardian's mate and managed to piss him off at the same time, well that was just a bonus and pure luck of circumstance. After all, he had gypsy blood inside of him and could not stop the satisfaction he got from pissing people off.”
― Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence

“You know you really have to beware of gypsies in these parts," he said teasingly, dismounting from his horse...Keirah gave him a small smile that she didn't quite feel. "Good thing I have the Gwarda here to protect me," she teased back.”
― Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence

“Kathel did not back down at all. "Well, Keirah told me she was suddenly unattached, if you know what I mean. And I figured, what the hell, why not have a go at her myself," Kathel said enthusiastically.”
― Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence

“Gitanos y Payos habemus buenos y malos”
― Camarón de la Isla, Camarón: antología (Poesía opera prima)

“I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner, but you'll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“The man was absolutely beautiful. Vampire. Warrior. Whatever Shan Quesada was all man.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on.

"Never stop touching me that way," Maya rasped.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble

“He was looking at the most exciting woman he’d ever met.”
― B.J. Daniels, Outlaw's Honor

“He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.”
― B.J. Daniels, Outlaw's Honor

“My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take me away from the gypsy caravan that was my life, and give me hot meals, a decent dress, and a pony.”
― Roberta Pearce, A Bird Without Wings

“Unlike the Jukel, he had not been raised among the Tigani (Gypsies who inhabited eastern Romania). Revered, protected, and educated. He had been born in the wild. The offspring of a werewolf to werewolf mating. A Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf).”
― Shirley A. Martin, Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies vol. 1