Marnie Quotes

“People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“A vida é a mesma coisa que se ficar num hospício de loucos", pensei. "Cada um vai circulando, imerso e afogado em suas próprias desilusões, sem que ninguém veja. A pessoa vai abrindo caminhos pelas celas, passando por entre os companheiros atormentados, rumo àquele que parece o único mentalmente são". Era exatamente o que eu estava fazendo agora.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“Marnie, I won't say, Make him happy, but I will say, Be happy yourself. I think you're capable of much more than you think”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don't think it's much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water's doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“I didn’t want either him or his cousin, I only wanted to be able to rob them in peace.”
― Winston Graham, Marnie

“Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things.
Such as this, I suppose
Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love”
― Winston Graham, Marnie