Elise Noble > Quotes

“I can’t stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature”
― Elise Noble, Pitch Black

“Sitting around made me feel useless. I’d rather be out doing something constructive. Or destructive, depending on which was more appropriate.”
― Elise Noble, Pitch Black

“Whereabouts are you planning to open the office?” I asked. “I need to decide between California and Virginia. California’s better known in the tech industry, but the education system in Virginia’s pushing that way too. That means plenty of workforce availability, and there are some good tax breaks for investing there right now.” Virginia. My home. I could certainly vouch for the state being a good place to start a company because I’d done it myself. Not only was the state government supportive of new business, the proximity to Washington, DC and New York meant a lot of key players were within easy travelling distance. But I couldn’t have an intelligent conversation with Luke about corporate affairs because as an ex-nobody, I wouldn’t be expected to know about those sorts of things. Instead, I settled for, “I used to live in Virginia. It’s got a good track record for employment and, from what I read in the papers, you’re right about the government support”
― Elise Noble, Pitch Black

“put”
― Elise Noble, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“And when I first met my husband, he’d imparted a few words of wisdom: if you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying. Because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything. Words to live by. I’d taken his advice to heart, and like everything else I did, I practised. Practice made perfect.”
― Elise Noble, Pitch Black

“later, I had a double”
― Elise Noble, Black Is My Heart

“As Victor Frankl said, it’s ‘the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Elise Noble, Pitch Black

“sucking in air”
― Elise Noble, Black Is My Heart

“Luca might have been straight, but I was struggling to keep my face that way.”
― Elise Noble, Dirty Little Secrets

“She’d been drinking. She wore a slutty dress. She was asking for it. The part they never mentioned? The shame.”
― Elise Noble, Dirty Little Secrets