Laura Anderson > Laura's Quotes

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

“The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments