Louise Doughty Quotes & Sayings

Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all. — Louise Doughty

Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize. — Louise Doughty

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability. — Louise Doughty

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Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night. — Louise Doughty

You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool. — Louise Doughty

We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back. — Louise Doughty

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever. — Louise Doughty

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit. — Louise Doughty

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough. — Louise Doughty

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn't about you. — Louise Doughty

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. — Louise Doughty

The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters - the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial. — Louise Doughty

It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared. — Louise Doughty

How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know? — Louise Doughty

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does. — Louise Doughty