Sophie Evelien DB > Sophie's Quotes

“The judge had given Brock something that would never be extended to me: empathy. My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“When society questions a victim’s reluctance to report, I will be here to remind you that you ask us to sacrifice our sanity to fight outdated structures that were designed to keep us down.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Voelde me langzaam anders worden, merkte dat ik iemand werd die ik niet wilde zijn. Nee, diep vanbinnen wás ik iemand die ik niet wilde zijn. Omdat het anders was, omdat mensen erover zouden praten, omdat ik in andere landen verboden was. Niemand had me gevraagd of ik dit wilde zijn. Niemand had bij me geïnformeerd wat ik ervan zou vinden. Niemand had verteld hoe ik ermee om moest gaan. Opeens was ik het gewoon. En hoe hard, hoe lang, hoe heftig ik het ook bleef ontkennen, ik kon het niet tegenhouden.”
― Splinter Chabot, Confettiregen

“Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975”
― Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

“The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride.”
― David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

“The worst of it was that there was no easy way to act against witches, or escape them. It didn't matter how detested Hugh and Mary had become: there they were, following the same routines, persistently present - not predators to be trapped or Indians to be shot at, or even homicidal colonists who could be dragged into court. They were ordinary neighbours, difficult to shun in a social world of mutual dependence.”
― Malcolm Gaskill, The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“I don’t know what it’s like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

“this quote will be very long because I'm trying to see, it it'll work, on long sentences. Maybe that's the problem with the other quote? Who knows?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.”
― Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"