Roth > Roth's Quotes

“I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me”
― Foz Meadows, Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World

“Sometimes the gravest things must, of necessity, become the most comic. It's how we know they haven't destroyed us.”
― Foz Meadows, Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World

“That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I’m suggesting that if you’re going to bring hell down upon someone’s head, you should dress for the occasion.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Standing there on display was painful enough.
Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch