Quotes of: Woolf Keyword

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Jennifer Saunders

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.

Miranda Hart

I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.

Marianne Williamson

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

Mary Wesley

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

Sherry Argov

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

Sandra Brown

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

Tim O'Reilly

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.

Allen Lane

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

Helen Oyeyemi

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Karl Lagerfeld

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Nawal El Saadawi

Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.

The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

City of Heavenly Fire

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

City of Heavenly Fire

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

City of Heavenly Fire

As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.

City of Heavenly Fire

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

City of Heavenly Fire

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Clockwork Princess

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

Clockwork Princess

It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

Clockwork Prince

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Clockwork Princess