Nicole Galland > Quotes

“If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.”
― Nicole Galland, I, Iago

“Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.”
― Nicole Galland, The Fool's Tale

“These had been painted, trompe l’oeil–ishly, to look like stone.”
― Nicole Galland, Master of the Revels

“Booze and puppies,” said Sara under her breath to me. “The best social lubricants in North America.”
― Nicole Galland, Stepdog

“The butterfly effects result, in the twenty-first century, to advantage the United States geopolitically.”
― Nicole Galland, Master of the Revels

“It took more than a month to prepare it—the greatest beneficent heist in the history of Christendom. Should I live to be one hundred, and my deeds become immortalized in song, please know that there is nothing in my life of which I’m prouder than the preemptive abduction of those relics. Even though it all went horribly wrong.”
― Nicole Galland, Crossed

“They appear strangely flattered by the ekename.”
― Nicole Galland, Crossed

“John the Baptist would have looked debonair in comparison, even after Salome got her prize.”
― Nicole Galland, Crossed

“Your arrival is fortuitous.”
― Nicole Galland, I, Iago

“Suddenly Joan was terrified. She would fail at this. He would scoff at her and lose interest, and then Sander would also scoff, to stay in Bacon’s good graces, so that Bacon would continue to seek patrons for him. They shared entire worlds she had no entry to, and never would: cabals and social circles Sander was welcomed into because he was the celebrated boy-actor, because he ravished and was ravished by those who granted entry to those circles, because he was ambitious to maintain his elevated status. A month ago she’d have been nervous only for losing the opportunity to study with Francis Bacon but now she feared losing Sander.”
― Nicole galland, Boy