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  • #1
    Tana French
    “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. ”
    Tana French, In the Woods

  • #2
    Gillian Flynn
    “I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #3
    Gillian Flynn
    “I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #4
    Gillian Flynn
    “I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #5
    Anita Diamant
    “Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.”
    Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

  • #6
    Gillian Flynn
    “The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #7
    Ralph Ellison
    “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #8
    Anita Diamant
    “My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.”
    Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

  • #9
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #10
    Gillian Flynn
    “Safer to be feared than loved.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #11
    Gillian Flynn
    “It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #12
    Gillian Flynn
    “I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #13
    Gillian Flynn
    “There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #14
    Tana French
    “I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
    Tana French, The Likeness

  • #15
    Tana French
    “My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
    Tana French, Faithful Place

  • #16
    Tana French
    “When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”
    Tana French, The Likeness

  • #17
    Tana French
    “In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.”
    Tana French, In the Woods

  • #18
    Tana French
    “One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead... I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp, but give me a dead child, any day, over a child sobbing his heart out while you make him tell you what the bad man did next. Dead victims don't show up outside HQ to beg for answers, you never have to nudge them into reliving every hideous moment, and you never have to worry, and you never have to worry about what it'll do to their lives if you fuck up. They stay put in the morgue, light-years beyond anything I can do right or wrong, and leave me free to focus on the people who sent them there.”
    Tana French, Broken Harbour

  • #19
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #20
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #21
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Be worthy love, and love will come.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #22
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Ntozake Shange
    “one thing I don’t need
    is any more apologies
    i got sorry greetin me at my front door
    you can keep yrs
    i don’t know what to do wit em
    they don’t open doors
    or bring the sun back
    they don’t make me happy
    or get a mornin paper
    didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
    cuz a sorry.”
    Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • #26
    Ntozake Shange
    “without any assistance or guidance from you
    i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
    i have been stood up four times
    i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep
    forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
    town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
    on my job
    you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
    so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work
    charmin charmin
    but you are of no assistance
    i want you to know
    this waz an experiment
    to see how selifsh i cd be
    if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
    if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
    if i cd stand not being wanted
    when i wanted to be wanted
    & i cannot
    so
    with no further assistance & no guidance from you
    i am endin this affair

    this note is attached to a plant
    i've been waterin since the day i met you
    you may water it
    yr damn self”
    Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • #27
    Ntozake Shange
    “Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/
    a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/
    i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/
    in somebody else's cup...”
    Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • #28
    Ntozake Shange
    “my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender”
    Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • #29
    Ntozake Shange
    “i found god in myself
    and i loved her
    i loved her fiercely”
    Ntozake Shange

  • #30
    Toni Morrison
    “...Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change." Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn't last. One day she wouldn't even have that. This very grief that had twisted her into a curve on the floor and flayed her would be gone. She would lose that too.
    Why, even in hate here I am thinking of what Sula said.”
    Toni Morrison, Sula
    tags: sula



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