Anakana Schofield > Quotes

“Sacrifice is a stupid thing that women do.
Don't do it.
The men don't notice.
And all the women around you spend their lives mopping you up.
So you're only making more work for the women who'll have to repair you.
That's more than a warning.
It is an order.
Be prepared to be unpopular.”
― Anakana Schofield, Bina

“Sad and glad, her strange combination.”
― Anakana Schofield, Malarky

“It's beautiful when it all makes sense, so it is. Occasionally it makes sense, just for a moment.”
― Anakana Schofield, Malarky

“Her very worst picture, that, of people who live together rolling along, rolling along through the century and no matter how they try or don't try, wake up decades later to the realization they'd been quietly making each other miserable.”
― Anakana Schofield, Malarky

“You stood up for innocents!
Now we'll stand up for you.
Oh God
Please don't.
Everyone just lie down and have a nap.
A never-ending one.”
― Anakana Schofield, Bina

“It is pure shite the tea that fella make and I can't get to the kettle so easy to fix it, Tomás complained. The wrong cup of tea can make a body very miserable. It's not that you'd need the right cup of tea all day long. You can bypass a few cups. An average or passable six of them. But about every twelve there's a long thirst only ever relieved by the right cup. Am I right?

Oh you are. You're absolutely right.”
― Anakana Schofield, Bina

“Don’t arrive at the end of this tale insisting it was too long or too wide or too unlike you. I am not interested in appealing to you. I am not you. I am only here to warn you.”
― Anakana Schofield, Bina: A Novel in Warnings

“Il y a le connu et l'inconnu. Entre les deux, nous errons et nous posons des questions.”
― Anakana Schofield, Martin John