Valerie Judge > Valerie's Quotes

“Thinking of such things like they’d happened years ago already and not just a few weeks back. For once life begins to accelerate it goes faster and faster.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys

“Men can’t help themselves, so the burden falls on women to keep society safe and close to God.”
― Rachael English, The Paper Bracelet

“You have fallen and you can rise again. The day will come when you walk out of here and begin afresh. But I warn you, Patricia, if you behave as though you belong in the gutter, the gutter is where you’ll end up.”
― Rachael English, The Paper Bracelet

“They were a ragtag bunch, their stomachs swelling against their ugly uniforms, their hair tied up in topknots, their faces pink from heat and exertion. They’d been assaulted, abandoned, discarded, left in the lurch. They’d been branded, insulted and punished. They were sluts, tramps, whores, fallen women. Their babies would be taken from them without consideration or permission. And still they sang.”
― Rachael English, The Paper Bracelet

“Everyone tells me not to shout when I get to shouting stage, but I beg to differ, because asking politely has got me nowhere and so now I have to resort to shouting to get things done. You think I like shouting? Because I don’t, I don’t like shouting!’ she shouted.”
― Amanda Prowse, Very Very Lucky

“He didn’t like the countryside half as much as she did, but he studied it, the flora and fauna, because studying had always made something noble of his disorientation.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Caledonian Road

“the moral is that you shouldn’t let your vanity make you so competitive that you’re driven to self-destruction.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“Us nursing assistants, we’re the guardians of the temples of past loves. But that doesn’t show on our pay slips.”
― Valérie Perrin, Forgotten on Sunday

“normalcy.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret