Isabella ⸙ > Isabella ⸙'s Quotes

“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“No one in the Family has ever concerned himself with Lunatics before, although your Grandfather was a Quaker clergyman.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“There is a saying that the landscape in which a child spends the first seven years of its life will leave a mark it cannot escape. A child brought up by the sea will always carry a longing for the ocean; a town child, reared to the sound of traffic and the warm bustle of neighbours, will never quite settle in the silence of the countryside.”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

“we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Nobody ate much, but they did drink, which fired their anger and dimmed their judgement.”
― Kate Mosse, Labyrinth

“Men wielded their video cameras like weapons, recording rather than experiencing...”
― Kate Mosse, Labyrinth

“There was no nobility in war. Only suffering.”
― Kate Mosse, Labyrinth

“She cuts out biscuits with a shot glass that's never shot a thing but short dough.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
― Kathryn Stockett

“...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. ”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I am starting to notice things.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I have decided not to die.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Even the blackest darkness disappears in the faintest light.”
― Carnby Kim, 스위트홈 1 [Sweet Home 1]

“The young lady's countenance, which had before worn an almost livid look of hatred, assumed a smile that was perhaps scarcely more agreeable.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair