Georgina Warren > Georgina's Quotes

“We are so smitten with this reading from the author's latest book, Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers, which is the first installment of what will eventually be a three-volume collection. Georgina created this beautiful book to celebrate the relationship she has with her own stepmother. It’s a must-have.”
― Anonymous

“Gorgeous Tales! *****

I haven't read fairytales in forever, and this was just what I needed to get drawn back into magical worlds. Georgina Warren just has a way with words.”
― Anonymous

“Delightfully Imaginative, Heartfelt Tale *****

I love that it's a deliciously vivid collection of enchanting stories that gives stepmothers a modern interpretation. I bought it as a gift for a friend who wanted something to read to her kids. But I can also see it as a fun book for adults to curl up with in some corner, in a comfy chair, just for themselves.”
― Anonymous

“Such a refreshing concept! ***** I love seeing old tropes turned on their heads. These heartfelt stories really bring a lot of positivity to the contemporary literary scene.”
― Anonymous

“Few have the time or courage to write a book, so I’m very proud you wrote yours.”
― Anonymous

“Many congratulations on publishing your book. We shall look forward to volumes two and three following on! Hoping to get all your news later this week. Very hard to keep up with the literary output coming from Washington D.C.”
― Anonymous

“I highly applaud you for writing this book. It takes time and a tremendous amount of effort to write and I know you put your heart and soul into this publication. I hope that it will be a success.”
― Anonymous

“Your book arrived today from Amazon UK, and I have just read the first story about Manticores, which I really enjoyed. Congratulations! The book will definitely find a readership in the modern world.”
― Anonymous

“I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport.”
― Neely Tucker, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“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

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
― Cate Tiernan

“Can you believe it? I had a project that was sure to win the silver trophy, not to mention that Miss Green would probably get voted best science teacher, and what happens? She won’t even listen to me.

I also had another problem. Miss Green had told me not to come back until I had washed off the green paint. Except it wasn’t green paint, and I didn’t know how to change myself back.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“People often say to me, “I would die for my kids.” I respond, “I don’t want to know if you will die for them, what I need to know is will you live for them? Because that’s what they need.”
― Laura Petherbridge, When "I Do" Becomes "I Don't": Practical Steps for Healing During Separation & Divorce

“friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN”
― Laura Petherbridge, When "I Do" Becomes "I Don't": Practical Steps for Healing During Separation & Divorce

“Stepmothers cry when they are invited to mother-daughter dinners by their stepdaughters”
― Penny Humphrey, Stepmothers Try Harder

“A stepmother has pipe dreams that someday one of her step-grandchildren will be named after her”
― Penny Humphrey, Stepmothers Try Harder

“It isn't easy, being a wicked stepfather. There are no guidelines. Western literature is filled with tips on how to become a wicked stepmother. Give your stepkid a poison apple. Make her clean the chimney while your daughters go to the ball. Ditch them in a forest and make them find their way home with bread crumbs. Stepfathers don't get an instruction manual. They have to learn to be wicked on their own.”
― Daisy L. Stewart, Stepfathers Are People Too