Kim Wright > Kim's Quotes

“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”
― Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air

“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.”
― Kim Wright

“And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.

It is the failing of his lifetime.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.”
― Kim Wright, City of Bells

“She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“The blending, of course, is the challenge. Most creatures who are special cannot seem to stop themselves from announcing the fact, despite the dangers that come with being different from the rest of your species. If you tie a red string around a wren’s leg, the others in the flock will peck it to death.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to please them. If it were not for the ladies, Trevor often proclaimed, especially after a few beers, humanity would doubtlessly still be roaming the forests in animal skins.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better, even if the favor granted is as small as a cigarette.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence