Alice Urchin > Alice's Quotes

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“You're not me. You can't feel like I feel."
"I can feel."
"No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine."
"It's not fine. It's just not so bad.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”
― John Fowles The Magus

“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”
― John Fowles, The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma

“- Вот она, истина. Не в серпе и молоте. Не в звездах и полосах. Не в распятии. Не в солнце. Не в золоте. Не в инь и ян. В улыбке.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“apathy is a disease and some days i long for it.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense.”
― Zoe Trope

“Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“if you take off your clothes, you will find more clothes.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.”
― Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
― Andy Warhol

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement