Marie > Marie's Quotes

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“It is impossible to predict what might happen in a world where you don't know the rules.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“The judge had given Brock something that would never be extended to me: empathy. My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Hallucinations are without number. Truly that is what I have always known: no more faith in history, principles forgotten. I’ll keep quiet about that: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let us be as avaricious as the sea.”
― Arthur Rimbaud