Fortresses Quote by Charles Dickens

“The truth of the matter is the people in the Empire are suffering. I am their princess. If they suffer, I should be in…

— Israh Azizi

“Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.”

— Robert Fulghum

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction…

— Charles Dickens

“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the…

— Marcel Proust

“There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with…

— Julie Kagawa

“Epochs later, the curtains grew dusty and brittle, the deep, vicious colour of a bruise. The floorboards creaked and we were civilized. We were…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character…

— Philip Roth

“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as…

— Marcel Proust

“The old men from the charity hospital next door would come jerking past our rooms, making useless, disjointed leaps. They'd go from room to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust,…

— Laini Taylor