Lauren Boswell Quotes & Sayings

it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children, who will, in their turn, grieve for them. — Alexandre Dumas

Wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason ... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. — Aldous Huxley

But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa ... — Stephen King

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential. — Thomas Piketty

Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out to the beauties of the visible world; and the decaying majesty of Allfriars moved her strangely. — Edith Wharton

The need to call this thing "good" and this thing "bad," this thing "white" and this thing "black," was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else. — Yaa Gyasi

The balls do not make a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there. — Jayne Mansfield

Even after so many years of marriage, there were things she didn't know about her husband's life! — Farahad Zama

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan. — Jim McMahon

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. — Patrick Stump

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you. — Fredrik Backman