Erin Driscoll > Erin's Quotes

“How do I like what?'
'Your tea.'
'The way God intended. Milk and three sugars.”
― John Boyne, Water

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.

Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Seeing someone with their parents is a tangible reminder that we're all composites.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It is imperative to find a woman to blame for a man’s crimes.”
― John Boyne, Water

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“My husband has no name; he is my husband, he belongs to me.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“I knew I was cheating on my husband for the right reasons (having a lover makes me even more inaccessible and mysterious).”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“More generally, the idea that my husband existed before meeting me is surreal, even revolting.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband