Quotes from The Weight of Words

Georgina Guthrie ·  326 pages

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“The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD!”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“And, dear God? Thank you for creating Daniel in all his sweet-ass hotness. That’s probably sacrilege, but I mean it most sincerely. Amen.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an eyelash. It's quite impressive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“I wish you and I weren’t so grossed out by each other. We could’ve been great.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“I thought I had the ability to mind-fuck people, but today I’d met my match.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words



“A reader who’s been prepared to make enormous sacrifices to secure someone’s love would not find his actions incomprehensible,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“I may have lost the academic plot, but my girly bits were definitely taking notes.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“love that can be calculated or quantified is meaningless or lacking true value,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“I love how we can always pick up where we left off,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“Nobody uses “whom” properly. How the hell was he able to do it when he was half wasted?”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words



“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“According to Julie, some men were wholly incapable of coping with smart women.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“The poster child for decorum was actually being sexually suggestive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“Thank you, Miss Harper, for taking us straight to the gutter,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words



“Yeah, I was totally missing the boat on this one. How I wished I wanted Matt sometimes. Life would be so much easier.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“For some must watch, while some must sleep: Thus runs the world away.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words



“though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


“I have seen a medicine That’s able to breathe life into a stone…”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words



“These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words


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