Amy Witting > Quotes

“Innocence may not be all it's cracked up to be.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“This world. This human race. It isn't divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it's divided into sexes but it isn't. It's the givers and the takers, the diners and the dinners”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Children could vanish without trace, but not parents.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“You know, when there's a noise breaking into your sleep and you don't want to wake up, you can dream a long complicated dream that explains the whole noise away.”
― Amy Witting

“People who mean harm have it over the rest of us. They always win. And the only thing to do is to keep away from them.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“If women didn't throw themselves at men's heads, the human race would not proceed.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“It's amazing though," said Kenneth, "what you can get away with if you give up caring about anything else, like self-respect and pride and all that stuff. Turning yourself into a projectile, so to speak.”
― Amy Witting

“I'm not worrying about the environment at the moment. I'm having enough trouble with my own.”
― Amy Witting

“Children aged and moved away. Friendships aged and grew better.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“This world. This human race. It isn’t divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it’s divided into sexes but it isn’t. It’s the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“How easy it all was, to get drunk, to go mad, to vandalise, to commit fraud. Perhaps she had always had criminal tendencies;”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Moral decisions. She had thought she was done with them. You did your best and then wondered for the rest of your life if you'd done the right thing.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.”
― Amy Witting, Isobel on the way to the corner shop

“He has something more important that a sense of humour, but I don't know what it is.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“One needs to be briefed before one talks to writers”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“Ella hadn't thought before to question her mother's happiness-but how many of her mottoes and devices had been antidotes to despair.”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting

“The word divorce which stood stark in the future reached back into the past, how far?”
― Amy Witting, A change in the lighting