Quotes About Amadeo

Master, the paintings, the paintings in the storage rooms! I cried. Forget the paintings. It's too late. Boys, run from here, get out now, save yourselves from the fire. Knocking the attackers back, he shot up the stairwell and called down to me from the uppermost railing. Come, Amadeo, fight them off, believe in your strength, child, fight.

Out of the darkness and bitter earth of the monastery, Amadeo came into the light.

Be my child, Amadeo," I whispered in this sweetness. "Be my child forever," I said. "Have I ever loved anyone more than you?

The beautiful boy with the auburn hair who was Amadeo gazed at me calmly as Riccardo spoke. And once again he said in the soft Russian tongue: Master, which the other boys did not hear.

I left the splendid city of Venice with her glittering palaces and I withdrew to the chilly mountain sanctuary, and I knew that the fate of Amadeo was sealed.

Oh, how heartily and eternally I despise him because he destroyed, in the name of Satan, all that I held precious, because he took my Amadeo away from me, because he took those whom I protected, because the palazzo which contained the fruits of my dreams.

Amadeo was the one I wanted. Amadeo was the one I was educating, training. Amadeo was the precious student of the Blood.

How had he read from my mind, my desire for Amadeo?

Never had I seen Amadeo so obsessed with either love or misery, with either happiness or grief. But the man was stubborn, the man was drunk, and the man wanted one thing from this strange person prodding him and that was more wine.

We did not speak of it, you understand, but I knew that it was the figure of his father who reigned in Amadeo's heart. It was the figure of that powerful bearded man who had so vigorously fought for life rather death within the monastery who held supremacy over conflicts that Amadeo was ever to know.