Borbonese Quotes & Sayings

One of my biggest influences as a writer is J. K. Rowling. I grew up with Harry Potter. One thing I absolutely loved was how every single person in Harry's world was so three-dimensional - it was as if each one was the main character in his or her own story and was just making a guest appearance in Harry's story. I strive to do that as a writer. I want every side character to be the main character of his or her own story. — Angie Thomas

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard

What a difference a day makes. — Victoria Aveyard

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it - and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended - a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. — Charlotte Bronte

The past had a perfection that the future could never hold. — Nick Cutter

A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that. — Bernard Cornwell

(The good news, as my mom used to say, is that in prison they can get a Bible, whereas in school they cannot.) — Emerson Eggerichs

Sometimes you can love someone that you never really knew. — Nancy Ann Healy