Top 50 Lina J. Potter Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Even the strongest man needed a place where he could rest. Even the strongest woman needed the knowledge that she was not alone, that she had a strong shoulder to lean on.”

— Lina J. Potter

2. “The death of a loved one is a terrible thing. Even more terrible is the death of the only dear person; the one who shares your every breath. But the worst thing is when the loved one is slowly dying before your very eyes; when you see and understand everything but cannot help him; when you are prepared to give up your life for his, but they won’t take it.”

— Lina J. Potter

3. “Children should not repeat their parents’ mistakes, especially if their parents are around to warn them.”

— Lina J. Potter

4. “God, how I hate death. It knew no time, no reason, no mercy, and took away the closest people to unknown faraway places. Whatever the Bible said about death, Lily didn’t believe that the dead departed to a better place. She wasn’t going to sit back and watch them depart to that better world. She wanted to fight. She viciously fought for every patient’s life. Sometimes hopelessly, but she continued the fight until the end.”

— Lina J. Potter

5. “Men love those creatures that need to be taken care of. To be with a strong and wise woman is obliging. If you want to tame a lioness you need to become a lion, not a goat. A doe is easier to keep. You give her a little grass, a little milk, and she is tamed. Who do you think a man would choose?”

— Lina J. Potter

6. “Those who seek revenge are the first ones to die.”

— Lina J. Potter

7. “Hold a genie over a hot frying pan, and he will give you ten times more wishes.”

— Lina J. Potter

8. “The death of a loved one is a terrible thing. Even more terrible is the death of the only dear person; the one who shares your every breath.”

— Lina J. Potter

9. “Time doesn’t really heal all wounds. It just creates a layer of years over something that still pulses and bleeds. When someone cuts a piece out of your heart, it never heals.”

— Lina J. Potter

10. “One never got used to flattery.”

— Lina J. Potter

11. “A last, despairing thought shot through Aliya’s mind, Is this it? I don’t want to die! I want to live! Then everything went dark.”

— Lina J. Potter

12. “The worst thing is mere existence. The worst is when no one gives a damn if you exist or not.”

— Lina J. Potter

13. “Her stomach rumbled, and Lily wondered how many calories her diplomacy had burned.”

— Lina J. Potter

14. “Two intelligent people can always find common ground.”

— Lina J. Potter

15. “She could construct a compass in no time. She needed a needle, a cup of water, and a cork that floated on the surface. She would heat a needle from one end in order to demagnetize it, put it on the cork and place them inside the cup filled with water. The heated end of the needle would point south.”

— Lina J. Potter

16. “Beauty is skin-deep, young man.”

— Lina J. Potter

17. “The woman did not care for empty compliments; to get such a woman, one needed to put forth effort.”

— Lina J. Potter

18. “The corner of the witch’s mouth twitched. “My remedy can bring a soul back into the body, but it won’t work if the soul doesn’t want to stay. Do you understand?”

— Lina J. Potter

19. “Which world is more honest?”

— Lina J. Potter

20. “How much do we lose because we are young and stupid?”

— Lina J. Potter

21. “Women could become friends if they have no self-interest.”

— Lina J. Potter

22. “One lives longer knowing less.”

— Lina J. Potter

23. “Eventually the old herbalist realized that Jaimie had knowledge to share, as well. Two intelligent people can always find common ground.”

— Lina J. Potter

24. “Her own experience showed that those in power seldom sided with justice.”

— Lina J. Potter

25. “So that’s how it was. Palaces, kings... and thugs like that, who, like locusts, move from one century to another.”

— Lina J. Potter

26. “She was a woman, not a workhorse.”

— Lina J. Potter

27. “Alas, sometimes man plans but the gods laugh.”

— Lina J. Potter

28. “You know better than me that there are people who serve God and those who serve only their own selves.”

— Lina J. Potter

29. “Yes, Lilian Earton was a large woman. She was fat. There was no other word for it. But at the same time, there was something indefinable about her. Was it an inner light? A sparkle in her eyes? The way she spoke and moved and made things move around her? The man couldn’t have said exactly. He didn’t know the word “charisma,” but that was exactly what she had. She had personality that no layers of fat could hide. She was impressive.”

— Lina J. Potter

30. “Providence is only our foresight and our actions. We create our own destiny.”

— Lina J. Potter

31. “One should be worthy of the memory of one’s descendants, as well as one’s ancestors. One should always remain a good person. No matter where life takes you, no matter how hard and curious it gets, you need to remain a worthy person, even if it goes against your own wish.”

— Lina J. Potter

32. “These people don’t even realize how tied down they are by thinking of themselves as either lords or peasants.”

— Lina J. Potter

33. “It’s the candy, not the wrapper, that matters. And it’s the person you live with, not their good looks.”

— Lina J. Potter

34. “All villains always blamed others for their own faults.”

— Lina J. Potter

35. “Smart people are always learning something new. Stupid people just stay stupid. Remember that.”

— Lina J. Potter

36. “There were many kinds of love. There were many couples who nourished their love with friendship. Hundreds of couples first married and only afterward, took notice of looks, learned how to trust each other and how to organize house chores. Such families ended up happier than the couples who were insanely in love.”

— Lina J. Potter

37. “Although the wound had healed long ago, the memory of it still hurt.”

— Lina J. Potter

38. “Life does not always allow us to remain human.”

— Lina J. Potter

39. “Sometimes I feel sorry for your Aldonai. Our gods divide responsibility between each other, but yours has to do it all alone. It must be hard for him.”

— Lina J. Potter

40. “You change the world, but the world changes you, too. There’s no getting around it. I have to survive here, no matter what it costs me.”

— Lina J. Potter

41. “If you always call a man a goat he will soon start to bleat.”

— Lina J. Potter

42. “Killing was certainly easier than curing; it required want, not brains.”

— Lina J. Potter

43. “In this world, women held a position somewhere between horses and cows. Aristocratic women were slightly better off.”

— Lina J. Potter

44. “Maybe it was love. No one could say if it was a creative or a destructive feeling.”

— Lina J. Potter

45. “She was not the type of woman to keep a lover. A man would have to work hard day and night to even gain her notice. She was intelligent, strong, interesting, and even a little bit mysterious.”

— Lina J. Potter

46. “When the inner light of the soul shone through like that, the shape of nose or ears became unimportant. She was shining, and it looked almost like a miracle.”

— Lina J. Potter

47. “A little less civilization would mean a much healthier planet; that’s a fact.”

— Lina J. Potter

48. “Curiosity was always stronger than pride.”

— Lina J. Potter

49. “They used to say that, in a battle between the lion and the tiger, the winner was the monkey, who watched from a distance.”

— Lina J. Potter

50. “The chain mail had cost her dearly, but Lily believed that if you don’t take care of your own army, you are essentially taking care of someone else’s army.”

— Lina J. Potter