Fargass Quotes & Sayings

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. — Arthur C. Clarke

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind. — David Mitchell

Leonora is the grownups' version of Cinderella. She doesn't take crap from any ugly stepsisters. She doesn't sit indoors waiting to be rescued by prince charming. Oh, no, she rescues prince charming, Florestan, who's locked up in a dungeon by his archenemy, Pizarro. Cinderella was fun when we were little girls, played with dolls and believed in passive fairytales. Now that we're grown women who play with toys, it's only fit to believe in active fairytales. — Luella Christie

I'd like to say I deserve you, but the truth is I don't and never will. You deserve a prince, and you're not going to catch him wearing that. — Jen McLaughlin

Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea that had drowned Shelley. His spirit became crustacean under douches of culture and mild philosophic chat from his Uncle Dee, who was cultured rather than erudite. — Elizabeth Bowen

As for being a good man,' and Glokta curled his lip, 'that ship sailed long ago, and I wasn't even there to wave it off. — Joe Abercrombie

NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day - we went looking for a pub. — Ben Aaronovitch

I'm trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat. — Tahereh Mafi