Birklean Quotes & Sayings

I was beautiful, or so my father told me. My oval mirror showed me a face with nothing written on it. I had suitors aplenty but wanted none of them: their doggish devotion seemed too easily won. I had an appetite for magic, even then. I wanted something improbably and perfect as a red rose just opening. — Emma Donoghue

The sound of her voice was painful. She screamed, sobbed, whispered Hallelujah. But she never sang it. — Brenna Yovanoff

Loving somebody is the beginning of everything. — Gladys Hasty Carroll

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point. — James Harden

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask. — Italo Calvino

What do you call each other? What are your pet names? Dearest? Turtledove? Thor? Herr Handsome of my heart? Lizard of my labia? Captain of my clitoris? — Penny Reid

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that. — Paul Bettany

"Do you often wear this dress?"
He pointed to the black satin dress with the two yellow swallows.
"I found it here when I rented the room. It must have belonged to the previous lodger."
"Or perhaps to you, in an earlier life." — Patrick Modiano