Ursula Middlemore > Ursula's Quotes

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“The light of long ago is different from the light of today and yet here, in this house, I’m reminded of the past at every turn.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“But I think maybe it’s more like a column of figures where you add two numbers wrong at the start, and it throws the total. If you trace it back, you can see the mistake – the point where you would have had a different outcome.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“maybe it’s inevitable that the very things that first attract you to someone are the same things with which you later grow irritated.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“You know, some day, when you’re all older,’ he said, looking around the room, ‘you’re going to have troubles of your own and you’ll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it’ll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you’ll look back at the way you’re all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.”
― John Boyne, My Brother's Name is Jessica

“Bit by bit, we become people we don’t want to be,”
― Nicci French, The Lying Room

“I was taught by my father to be afraid of the world, and some of the lessons stuck. I read about Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer and the massacre at the Munich Olympics and Charles Manson, and I knew the world was a terrifying place. He said it all of the time, reminded me that mountains could blow up and kill people in their sleep. Governments were corrupt. A flu could come out of nowhere and kill millions. A nuclear bomb could fall at any second, obliterating everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.”
― Nicci French, The Unheard

“coincidences are seductive”
― Minette Walters, Disordered Minds

“Saint wanted to ask what it was like, to lose the thing that defined you. But perhaps she knew: it left you someone else. A stranger you had no choice but to tolerate, and see each day and feel and fear.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark

“Will we be okay?’ he asked, and could not stop the words from leaving his lips. ‘Not one part of us.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark

“Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly