Birgit Alsinger > Birgit's Quotes

“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Erlend Loe, Muleum

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Because even though you don't want anyone to own you, it doesn't mean that there is nowhere you belong.”
― Lene Kaaberbol, The Shamer's War

“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey