257 quotes found
“Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...”
“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.”
“The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.”
“A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life...”
“People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.”
“I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.”
“Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning ...”
“Make your life a work of art and you will never die.”
“You'll live through my words and my pictures, and I'll live somewhere the skies are blue.”
“Elizabeth, this one last task you will enter in a moment, will determine your fate and who you are. You are eighteen now and with the blood of past generations running through your veins, this will...”
“All I want to do is be at Hogwarts with you, eating turkey legs in the great hall while listening to the carols of the ghosts gliding past us. Then maybe we can go to Hogsmeade to get a butterbeer.”
“You are the illness I will never cure. You are the poem I will never write. You are the thought I will never finish. You are the text I will never read.”
“If you are the land, then I am the sea. I don't need you and you don't need me.”
“We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.”
“...but I was bored, I could scarcely understand them. I started to borrow novels from the circulating library, and read one after the other. But in the long run they didn't help. They presented int...”
“Be yourself there is no one better”
“You never lose anyone definitely”
“She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have b...”
“Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences t...”
“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
