Quotes by Eleanor Catton

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Novelist and screenwriter · New Zealand · 2008

New Zealand novelist and screenwriter

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“She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost”
— Eleanor Catton
loners outsiders school teenage-girls

“She gave a shiver, and suddenly clutched her arms about her body. She spoke, Gascoigne thought, with an exhilarated fatigue, the kind that comes after the first blush of love, when the self has los...”
— Eleanor Catton
addiction description love opium

“Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and ...”
— Eleanor Catton
addiction craving description eleanor-catton

“I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.”
— Eleanor Catton
luck

“Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.”
— Eleanor Catton
eleanor-catton happy-couples lonely single

“What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?”
— Eleanor Catton
eleanor-catton love the-luminaries thirst

“I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was ...”
— Eleanor Catton
lying