Briony Williams Quotes & Sayings

There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight. — Alice Hoffman

You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story. — Tad Williams

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty - a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless - if it cloaked such a viperous soul? — Tad Williams

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear — William Shakespeare

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W.C. Sellar

Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread - and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious. — Tad Williams

Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times. — Stephen R. Prothero