Celia > Celia's Quotes

“I have always been sure
That when [the Day of Judgement] comes it will come in autumn.
Heaven, I am quite sure, wouldn't disappoint
The bulbs.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me”
― Dick Francis, Bonecrack

“[Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table.

She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the clearing and index buttons. Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position.”
― James H. Schmitz, The Universe Against Her

“JENNET:
They also say that I bring back the past;
For instance Helen comes
Brushing the maggots from her eyes,
And, clearing here throat of the dust of several thousand years
She says "I loved ..."; but cannot any longer
Remember names. Sad Helen. Or Alexander, wearing
His imperial cobwebs and breastplate of shining worms
Wakens and looks for his glasses, to find the empire
Which he knows he put beside his bed.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave

“The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.”
― Sherry Thomas, Ravishing the Heiress

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”
― Joann Sfar

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”
― Melissa Nathan

“I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today."
"Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial."
"Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?”
― Melissa Nathan, Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field

“The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

“Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

“Troll Wars were like Batman movies: both were repeated at regular intervals, featured expensive hardware, and were broadly predictable.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“I'm going to go out on a limb here. I've thought a lot about this one, as a feminist, and as an author. How should traditional roles be portrayed? In fantasy literature there is a school of thought that holds that women must be treated precisely like men. Only the traditional male sphere of power and means of wielding power count. If a woman is shown in a traditionally female role, then she must be being shown as inferior.

After a lot of thought, and some real-life stabs at those traditional roles, I've come to firmly disagree with this idea. For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.”
― Sarah Zettel, Mapping the World of Harry Potter: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Explore the Bestselling Series of All Time

“in autumn light that always seemed tired before the day was done”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Star-Crossed