The Fates Quotes

“When a person is deemed confusing, it is a short step to injury.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“By all the Gods, there is nothing to match a man for tedium. We call it sport and joshing, but there is loneliness at its core.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“tell them gently, there is nothing wrong with you. The fault is with a world that only deals in absolutes: day and night, up and down, black and white. A world that insists men act one way and women the other. A world that forgets we are all created of the same clay, and into us our mother Nyx breathes the same breath of life.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“I have learned it is a waste of time to reason with those who’ve already made up their minds.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“I grew up free of the falsehood that girls are timid, so I became brave. I grew up free of the falsehood that girls are feeble, so I became brawny. I grew up free of the falsehood that girls are weak-minded, so I became clever. I grew up free of the falsehood that girls are inferior, so I became Equal-in-Weight.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“He has been fed the lie he can do as he pleases, acting honourably or dishonourably according to his whim. He is not subject to the laws governing men, because he is more than a man.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“Men who grasp what is not theirs to grasp, convinced anything they take a fancy to is theirs by right. Men as greedy as toddling boys, who push everything into the red and sticky hole of their mouths yet are never satisfied. Men who treat the world in the same fashion: a possession to be grabbed, pawed and devoured. Men with never a please or thank you, imagining the sun rises for them and them alone.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“I watch women strolling past. Arm in arm, they inhabit a private world of sharing, low-voiced and intimate. I don’t know how they do it. All I know is I am envious.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“Each creature needs an ending so it might lay down its aching years and sleep.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates