“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
“The answer to all questions of life and death, "the absolute solution" was written all over the world he had known: it was like a traveller realising that the wild country he surveys is not an accidental assembly of natural phenomena, but the page in a book where these mountains and forests, and fields, and rivers are disposed in such a way as to form a coherent sentence; the vowel of a lake fusing with the consonant of a sibilant slope; the windings of a road writing its message in a round hand, as clear as that of one's father; trees conversing in dumb-show, making sense to one who has learnt the gestures of their language... Thus the traveller spells the landscape and its sense is disclosed, and likewise, the intricate pattern of human life turns out to be monogrammatic, now quite clear to the inner eye disentangling the interwoven letters. And the word, the meaning which appears is astounding in its simplicity: the greatest surprise being perhaps that in the course of one's earthly existence, with one's brain encompassed by an iron ring, by the close-fitting dream of one's own personality - one had not made by chance that simple mental jerk, which would have set free imprisoned thought and granted it the great understanding.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.”
― Allen Carr, quote from The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method
“I don’t think we should spend any time wandering around that remote possibility. It’s nice of you to wish me well, but actually I find it unbearably patronizing.”
― Maeve Binchy, quote from Heart and Soul
“She was quite maniac when I met her. I scared her, maybe.”
― Chris Wooding, quote from The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, quote from The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
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