Tia Williams > Tia's Quotes

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Instant gratification takes too long.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“I don't want these clinical, awkward setups. I don't feel like doing this twenty more times. I can't imagine meeting my soulmate through an interview process. I want to know without words. I want fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no choice connection.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it’s indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“she still loved him, and she could feel herself dying from it, like a disease.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.’ And here’s another one…”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“People search in vain forever to find what we've got. I don't know shit about anything, Jenna, and I might be inexperienced, but I know you'll never love anyone like you love me.'

'I won't she,' she whispered.

'And yet you can leave me so easily for a baby you don't have and a husband you've never met. I'm here, I'm real, and I just lost to a goddamn fantasy. I must've never really had you at all.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Like Elizabeth Taylor said, ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“You can’t imagine the utter bottomlessness of my disinterest in your opinion.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find