Hilary > Hilary's Quotes

“It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“Ain't no man can outrun his fate.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.

She made talent sound like a damned insult.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“Being brave isn't the same as being okay,' my mum said quietly.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“Being brave isn't the same as being okay," my mum said quietly.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“Walking down Seven Sisters Road to the Tube station, in a move that wouldn't be worth Freud's time to dissect, I called Guy.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“He truly wasn't very funny but:

1. Apart from Kyazike, who is ten times as funny as me, I don't find anyone as funny as me, even in this, the darkest period of my life.

2. Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I've ever met.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“It’s a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“It's always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,' Fabiana says. 'It always is.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“men who wrote tender, poetic sentences that tried to hide the narcissism and misogyny of their stories.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“But I can’t go out with a guy who’s written eleven and half pages in three years. That kind of thing is contagious.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I've forgotten what gets revealed right after you break up with someone.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers