Carole Lawrence > Quotes

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit,’ sir.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Sheets of sleet hurtled themselves against the windows, clattering like the tapping of devilish fingers upon the glass.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Sometimes things are neither this nor that, neither good nor bad. Sometimes they just are what they are.”
― Carole Lawrence, Cleopatra's Dagger

“He has the sadly mistaken impression that every time a thought pops into his head, no matter how absurd, he is obliged to share it with the world.”
― Carole Lawrence, Cleopatra's Dagger

“everything else fell away,”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Grief was a strange companion. At first it had hit hard and strong, like a blast of frigid wind, a shuddering blow that left no air in his body. Then it subsided for a while, rising up from time to time like an adder, coiled and poised to sink its teeth into the flesh of its victim. Ian had tried outrunning it, then fighting it, but quickly found the best thing was to lie still and let it crash over him like a wave.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances. At the moment, he felt it made him rather callous.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . .”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“There’s some who believe it’s wicked, but God made us all, and if there’s some he made a little different, I daresay he had a reason for it.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life’s unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“it weren’t for bad luck, he’d have no luck at all, and all that.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . . CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“I had occasion to test the law of gravity. I am happy to report it is intact.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Over time, alcohol seeps into your soul. It changes you—what you care about, what you are capable of. It rots you from the inside. It can alienate you from love itself.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Midnight

“You don’t seem very drawn to women yourself,” Ian said, smearing a chunk of bread liberally with butter. “Ah, but I like them. I just don’t have any use for them.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“in real life, monsters weren’t always vanquished, and heroes didn’t always win.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“the world is full of evil wretches who seek nothing but their own self-gratification, and they don’t give a damn whom they hurt in the process.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Work was the antidote—to faithless friends, determined killers, and a society more bent upon revenge than justice. It was something that could be done, whereas all one could do with life’s slings and arrows was to bear them, bravely or not.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“but it didn’t make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“I say, Rodney, there’s one of your typical Scottish ‘raggediers’ now.” His accent was British, exaggeratedly well-bred.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“My face had a disagreement with a fist about occupying the same space. The fist had the upper hand.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Suspicion is a heavy armor—’” “‘And with its weight it impedes more than it protects.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires,”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Ian’s discomfort was followed by a memory of a conversation he once had with Aunt Lillian about the indignities she had suffered as a young woman from the attention of men. He had not until this moment considered what it must have actually felt like.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight