Family-saga Quote by Gwenn Wright Download Open image ““Tragic tales rarely do make sense.”” — Gwenn Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family-saga Gothic Gwenn-wright Mystery Sadness Tragedy Viktor-von-strassenberg Von-strassenberg Ya Yalit Young adult
“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.” — Kathryn McMaster Copy Share Image
“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Liza took her time sipping her tea. “That’s what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don’t even know what I want. A lot of times I’m just tired.” Mama reached… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“You can cower,” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“It was just like in her books, but better, amplified, because it was her heart and her breath and it was real.” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.” — Donald Riggio Copy Share Image
“Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy,… — Sharon L. Reddy Copy Share Image
“What would you like for your own life, Kate, if you could choose?” “Anything?” “Of course anything.” “That’s really easy, Aunty Ivy.” “Go on… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It is exceptional… — S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour Copy Share Image
“... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Lizzie could tell it was a book by the feel and thought that it was probably her father’s new publication. He’d kept the work… — A.G. Graham Copy Share Image
“There is more important work to be done here. The strong must lead us into a new energy age before our world dies out.… — Donna Galanti Copy Share Image
“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at… — M.A. Lossl Copy Share Image
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as yet died;… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Tethered to the universe by tendrils of history, with threads of continuity descending to God knows where, I see that I'm more than the… — Carol Kenny Copy Share Image
