Amanda DeWees > Quotes

“The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save one's career.”
― Amanda DeWees, Nocturne for a Widow

“He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.”
― Amanda DeWees, Sea of Secrets

“The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.”
― Amanda DeWees, Sea of Secrets

“It's so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there's a lot of terrific stuff out there," he said. "There's no irony to it. It's not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or earnest. Or to have melody. Sure, you can blame it for being naive, but isn't that refreshing next to the whiny navel-gazing that came after it?”
― Amanda DeWees, The Shadow and the Rose

“If I were to die on this spot, I realized, the snow might cover me in mere hours, and I might never”
― Amanda DeWees, Nocturne for a Widow

“She who has an enemy, after all, is never lonely.”
― Amanda DeWees, Nocturne for a Widow