C.G. Fewston > C.G.'s Quotes

“We cannot save everyone, can we?’ I said to her as we continued walking on our way. I turned my head back only to find the spot the beggar had occupied empty.

‘Not everyone,’ she said. She took my hand once more in hers, kissed the back of it, and finished one of the sincerest axioms I had heard in sometime. ‘We must save,’ she said, ‘only the ones we can while we can.’

Leila Bakr, in A TIME TO LOVE IN TEHRAN, and speaking to her love, John Lockwood”
― C.G. Fewston

“All I kept thinking was how nothing was eternal. How men and women live and die and that was it; that was all. Nothing remained. Would I one day become a cannibal of morals and men? I thought. There was a certain freedom, and also darkness, in not wanting to know."

John Lockwood, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston

“What beautiful prisons,’ the Colonel finally said, ‘what beautiful prisons we make for ourselves in these ruins.’

Colonel Vaziri, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston

“It’s like tonight has been born,’ Ancilla whispered seductively to me as if in a dream, ‘born of a dust that enchants people into a false belief of sexual immortality.’ No one spoke like that anymore, perhaps only in the films, but that was what made her extraordinary, an exemplar to intellectual ravishment."

Ancilla, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“All is calm, all is bright.”
― Joseph Mohr

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“We must save,’ Leila said, ‘only the ones we can while we can.”
― CG Fewston, A Time to Love in Tehran

“What beautiful prisons,’ the Colonel finally said, ‘what beautiful prisons we make for ourselves in these ruins.”
― CG Fewston, A Time to Love in Tehran

“All I kept thinking was how nothing was eternal. How men and women live and die and that was it; that was all. Nothing remained. Would I one day become a cannibal of morals and men? I thought. There was a certain freedom, and also darkness, in not wanting to know."

John Lockwood, in A Time to Love in Tehran”
― CG Fewston, A Time to Love in Tehran

“Fewston delivers an atmospheric and evocative thriller in which an American government secret agent must navigate fluid allegiances and murky principles in 1970s Tehran...A cerebral, fast-paced thriller." - Kirkus Reviews for A TIME TO LOVE IN TEHRAN”
― CG FEWSTON , A Time to Love in Tehran

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger