Gavin > Gavin's Quotes

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

“His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.”
― T. A. Miles, Raventide

“Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.”
― T. A. Miles, Raventide

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf