Lady Romy > Lady Romy's Quotes

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
― Anne Sexton

“Who's a heretic now?”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“On my fourth birthday, I plucked six severed fingers from the shower drain.”
― Lucy Rose

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren’t like “everyone else,” and after a while Tress figured that the group “everyone else” must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Sexton, in a moment of true comradeship, smiled supportively at Plath across the table and the class continued.”
― Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton

“She told him that she had kicked her husband out because he was seeing another woman. When the vicar suggested this might be the result of her not being a good enough wife, Plath's response was to pick up a broom and chase him down the drive of Court Green”
― Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”
― Anne Sexton