Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

About Carol Ann Duffy:

Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Carol Ann Duffy

Flora took pleasure in the delicacy of her approach and studied the ways of the smallest, sweetest blooms she could find, tiny pimpernels and forget-me-nots hiding in the pockets of the fields. The energy of the sun on her body and the joy of foragin...

Carol Ann Duffy

Everything hurt. It meant she was alive.

Carol Ann Duffy

He still loved her—and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d spent the past nine days with a shadow of her soul, why he’d sought to reset the entire universe to have her back.

Carol Ann Duffy

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

Carol Ann Duffy

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

Carol Ann Duffy

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

Carol Ann Duffy

It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

Carol Ann Duffy

Humanity is a monster you can never kill.

Carol Ann Duffy

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.

Carol Ann Duffy

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Carol Ann Duffy

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Carol Ann Duffy

I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never dimin...

Carol Ann Duffy

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...

Carol Ann Duffy

Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time

Carol Ann Duffy

Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for." -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)

Carol Ann Duffy

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s ...

Carol Ann Duffy

You going to fuck her or kill her?” Anneke asked when Nyx sent Mercia off with her bodyguards. “You never look that close unless it’s one or the other.

Carol Ann Duffy

Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again. “I’m pretty fucked up,” Eshe said. “It’s a good thing I’m perfect, then.

Carol Ann Duffy

Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

Author Bio

  • NameCarol Ann Duffy
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornDecember 23, 1955
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; PEN Pinter Prize; Cholmondeley Award; Eric Gregory Award