Julia > Julia's Quotes

“She should have been feeding Maud scraps of herself, seducing her with sweet mouthfuls of truth into believing that they were growing close - she should have done the dance of intimacy, keeping herself in the lead and safe inches of space between them.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“Because if even a single woman was involved, they wouldn't have decided that a man who'd been working there one day was a more likely source of information than a woman who'd been there for years.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“I can’t believe we were almost killed by a hedge.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“I would take your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own. Is there any way I can make you believe it?”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anyway.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“My name is Morgan,” I said. “And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists