Quotes of: Woolf Keyword

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The Thirteenth Tale

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

The Thirteenth Tale

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Those Who Save Us

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe. "It was turning green,” said Will

The Whitechapel Fiend

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Wanda

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Wanda

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

What Is Occultism?

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

What Really Happened in Peru

Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.

What Really Happened in Peru

There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused to wallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.

What Really Happened in Peru

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

A Woman's Worth

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Aimee Bender

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Billy Graham

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Daniel Handler

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Osborne

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Helen Oyeyemi