Children Quote by Iain Banks

“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a…

— Iain Banks

“Was that what they called the natural lot of women? to suffer, perhaps to share the blame, but have no share in the plan,…

— Margaret Oliphant

“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death, especially in…

— Paul Éluard

“Yes, facts were necessary. But frankly, anyone could be trained to collect a bloodstain or find a hair. Or an affair. Or a bank…

— Louise Penny

“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum.…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“She is softhearted yet strong willed. She is compassionate yet unwavering in principle. She is a loving mother, yet she risked my life to…

— J.L. Witterick

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant anything to…

— Christopher Isherwood

“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my…

— Albert Camus