Steyne Hotel Quotes & Sayings

[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him. — Vera Brittain

When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs. — Victor Hugo

Sleeping in a hallway around Bedford Park later that week, I took out my blank transcripts and filled in the grades I wanted, making neat little columns of A's. If I could picture it - if I could take out these transcripts and look at them - then it was almost as if the A's had already happened. Day by day, I was just catching up with what was already real. My future A's, in my heart, had already occurred. Now I just had to get to them. — Liz Murray

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

people around you are reflections of your own identity. — Jennifer Pierre

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? — Charles De Lint

When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman's voice, using a woman's language. We begin to bloom. — Lucy H. Pearce