Suzanne > Suzanne's Quotes

“What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel”
― Francine Prose

“People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“it's amazing what you can get used to.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.”
― Ron White

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils