Kim Wright > Quotes

“It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”
― Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air

“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“The blending, of course, is the challenge. Most creatures who are special cannot seem to stop themselves from announcing the fact, despite the dangers that come with being different from the rest of your species. If you tie a red string around a wren’s leg, the others in the flock will peck it to death.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“It's true," I admit. I put two fingers up to my throat to feel my pulse. "I've never trusted anybody to catch me.”
― Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air

“If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better, even if the favor granted is as small as a cigarette.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“You can love one man and leave another and love a man and still leave him and leave a man without ever loving him, you can fuck everybody you meet or live like a nun and in the end you still wind up at Target.”
― Kim Wright

“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.”
― Kim Wright

“Religion is nothing more than the study of other people’s experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.”
― Kim Wright (The CanterburySisters)

“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to please them.   If it were not for the ladies, Trevor often proclaimed, especially after a few beers, humanity would doubtlessly still be roaming the forests in animal skins. But”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.”
― Kim Wright (The CanterburySisters)

“And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.

It is the failing of his lifetime.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to please them. If it were not for the ladies, Trevor often proclaimed, especially after a few beers, humanity would doubtlessly still be roaming the forests in animal skins.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“Kelly is the only one who knew me when we were both young and pretty, when we were impulsive and the world seemed full of men, and we would find ourselves sometimes transported by sex, picked up and carried into situations that, in the muddle of memory, seem a bit like movie scenes. She is the only one who would understand that I am relieved to find a sliver of this girl still inside me. Relieved to find that, although older and more suspicious and heavy with marriage, under the right circumstances I can still be picked up and carried.”
― Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air

“I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written—it’s a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.”
― Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air

“It was the summer just before we both turned twenty. Before life began to chip away at us like a sculptor into marble, reducing us from endless unformed possibility into the women we would ultimately become.”
― Kim Wright, The Unexpected Waltz

“This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.”
― Kim Wright

“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.”
― Kim Wright (The CanterburySisters)

“I’d forgotten the simple joy of learning, the joy of mastering one thing and then moving on to something else. It’s a pleasure we normally concede to the young.”
― Kim Wright, The Unexpected Waltz: A Novel