Will Miller > Will's Quotes

“Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones?”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“Put those heels away. That click, click, click, click is Morse code for rapists. It says their sentence will be lenient or non-existent. If only she didn't wear stilettos. If only she didn't walk through a park. If only she didn't go out at night.”
― Jenni Fagan, Hex

“A woman’s voice is a hex. She must learn to exalt men always. If she doesn’t do that, then she is a threat. A demon whore, a witch – so says everyone and the law”.”
― Jenni Fagan, Hex