Inge > Inge's Quotes

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“My husband is like one of those second-hand books you buy that's got all the wrong bits underlined.”
― Kevin Barry, There are Little Kingdoms: Stories

“But there were moments - when he saw groups of friends sitting in neat, symmetrical rows on pub benches, or couples holding hands in the street, where he felt a wave of embarrassment that he [...] hadn't exchanged so much as a cup of tea with an acquaintance or a flirtatious smile with someone on a train in years - that he scared himself with how intense the feeling of longing was. Because maybe, actually, he did want to find people to be close to, to make friends and perhaps even find someone to spend the rest of his life with.”
― Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone

“Kinship defines how we relate to one another. It determines whom and what we include in the structuring of our societies and whom and what we feel a sense of responsibility toward. If we look at our societies today, it is quite clear who and what has been excluded,and the incredible cost that this exclusion has had on our societies and our world.
In: All we can save - Indigenous Prophecy and Mother Earth”
― Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset

“How could the solution be more man-made climate change, not less? And that is geo-engineering's premise: yet more monsters of our own making. Dominoes will fall in a rapidly accelerating chain, but how significant and where they might be is a mystery. It would have been safer never to have touched the first one.
In: All we can save / A handful of dust”
― Kate Marvel

“Amongst the Himba, you "were what you knew you were once you knew what you were and that was that", to quote my village's chief Kapika.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti: The Complete Trilogy

“It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn't do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Over the years, how many women had seen their talents magically disappearing in that way?”
― Matsuda Aoko, Where the Wild Ladies Are