Ellen Douglas > Quotes

“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”
― Ellen Douglas, A Lifetime Burning

“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.”
― Ellen Douglas, Witnessing

“Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.”
― Ellen Douglas, Witnessing

“But the book! The siren song of the book!”
― Ellen Douglas, Witnessing

“There was nothing to say in reply; the silence of grief, of love's bitter failures, fell upon them all.”
― Ellen Douglas, Black Cloud, White Cloud