annie > annie's Quotes

“Look at him. Whole life turned upside down, and he’s in there making pizza rolls.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“People see the decoration, but they can only do that if you’ve put the right invisible structures in place. And science is the same.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“She ought to have paid more attention to her own self before now. She ought to have allowed herself to want things.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Maybe an artist is simply one who does an artist’s work, over and over. A process, not a paragon.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“The mix of horror and fiendish joy she saw in everyone’s faces didn’t puzzle her any longer: people always flocked to the shore when there was a shipwreck to watch.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“If I could do girlhood again, I’d ask to be scarier. Less whimpering—more pyromaniac urges, more flirting with kerosene.”
― Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium

“Every generation had women stand up and ask to be counted—and every generation of brilliant, insightful, educated men has raised a hand and wiped those women’s names from the greater historical record.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Vicky’s blood boiled at the injustice of it all. Why shouldn’t Parliament allow a wife the same recourse as a husband?”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“Some people you want to get to know and some people you want to know you....For whatever reason, there are people that you want to tell your weird, secret thoughts to. You want to show them your pimples and tell them about your braces. You want them to love you because of those things, not in spite of them. 'Some people make you want to be known,'" (p. 302)”
― Nicola Yoon, Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“What was she supposed to say? That life as she knew it would never be the same? That instead of being home where she belonged, selecting the very brightest rhubarb stalks, or watching the cherry trees blossom, or assisting with the lambing, she was here, desperate to find someone to marry her because her life was no longer hers to control?”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“Tom’s words played in Vicky’s mind: Just because sensational events happen in novels, that doesn’t mean they cannot happen. Though it pained her, he’d been right. Her life was looking less and less like one of Miss Austen’s novels and more and more like an utter mess.”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you. And I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing. Do you feel nothing?”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“We thought we were separate satellites, but we aren’t. We’re stars, and though we might burn separately, we’ll always be in one another’s orbit.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“In the end, the employees said, Jonathan’s routine had been so boring the subcontractor surveilling him had given up. 'I’m interesting!' Jonathan said, when I told him. 'I am a very interesting person! I went to an escape room!”
― Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“In the end, the courage of women can't be stamped out. And stories - the big ones, the true ones - can be caught but never killed.”
― Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

“Still, why did it follow that the only purpose of looking well was to attract a gentleman’s attention?”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You’re not like Mr. Darcy. And I wouldn’t have you be. You’re you. And I wouldn’t trade you for a dozen perfect gentlemen. The reality of you is far better than any fiction.”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“When I think of my father, I think of my heart breaking in stages. A dull pain, then piercing. Electric. Still, somehow, gradual.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“All this time I thought you needed saving, but really it was me.”
― Jennieke Cohen, Dangerous Alliance

“(Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?)”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House