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Quotes About Forbidden

They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not.
~ Clarence Darrow
I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
~ Clarice Lispector
Quiero poseer los átomos del tiempo. Y quiero capturar el presente que, por su propia naturaleza, me esta prohibido, el presente se me escapa, la actualidad huye, la actualidad soy yo siempre en presente.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sevdi?i adamla evlenmeyi Zaza'ya yasaklad?lar. Genç k?z kederinden sarar?p soldu, t?pk? amans?z bir hastal??a yakalanm?? gibi öldü bu dert yüzünden. Menenjit dendi. Yirmi ya??nda a?ktan ölünebilece?ini saklaman?n bir yolu bu muydu yoksa?
~ Unknown
No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.
~ Hilary Mantel
If you come into a room and say, this is what we're not talking about, it follows that you're talking about nothing else.
~ Hilary Mantel
Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel." Mercy, he suspects, comes from a family where John Wycliffe's writings are preserved and quoted, where the scriptures in English have always been known; scraps of writing hoarded, forbidden verses locked in the head. These things come down the generations, as eyes and noses come down, as meekness or the capacity for passion, as muscle power or the need to take a risk.
~ Hilary Mantel
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
~ Holly Black
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
~ Holly Black
He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.
~ Holly Black
I try not to be too conscious of his long fingers tracing over the paper, of the sick thrill I get when he looks at me.
~ Holly Black
Our eyes meet, and something dangerous sparks. He hates you, I remind myself. "Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it.
~ Holly Black
Grounded and kept home from the Collegium for a whole year for making out with Evil Overlord Alex. Also for joining his evil army of evil.
~ Holly Black
There are many things I am forbidden from telling you, for I am bound by both promises and strictures. Three times I will warn you, and that's all I am permitted, so heed me. Something even more dangerous than your prince walks in his shadow. Do not seek him out.
~ Holly Black
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Taryn and she had a faerie lover who came to her at night. He was generous and adoring, but visited only in the dark. He asked for two things: one, for her to keep their meetings secret, and two, never to look upon his face fully. And so, night after night she took delight in him but, after some time had passed, wondered what his secret could be.
~ Holly Black
Go away, close the book, put it down do not look!
~ Holly Black
He looked away, his gaze going toward the dais, and Kaye realised he was looking at the girl. The mortal girl. "What I want," he said, "is for Dain never to get the throne. Failing that, I'd love to see the whole Court of Termites walk out of here without your king's pledging anything. But then it is my nature to only want things I cannot have.
~ Holly Black
Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar.
~ Liane Moriarty
You just didn't go there.
~ Liane Moriarty
And then, everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity, now look what you've gone and done. When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another, how many times does she have to say it, nobody said a word about not opening it!
~ Liane Moriarty
You can wear a condom but you cant come here.
~ Lil Wayne
The Devil's interval", Logan murmured. She looked at him. "I'm sorry?" "The flatted fifth. G flat, for example, over C. It was a particular interval between two notes banned from church music in the Renaissance for it's supposedly evil influence.
~ Lincoln Child
Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
~ Lionel Shriver
The last thing we want to admit is that the forbidden fruit on which we have been gnawing since reaching the magic age of twenty-one is the same mealy Golden Delicious that we stuff into our children's lunch boxes.
~ Lionel Shriver