Jaima > Jaima's Quotes

“If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.”
― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“Lord, I can’t live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air.”
― Lorna Seilstad, Making Waves

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
― Dorothy Dunnett

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier