"Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel."

-- Marlene van Niekerk

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“If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.”

Source : Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
“I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber
“A vision is not something we make up, it's something we are MADE OF.”
“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”

Source : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
“I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!”
“I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.”
“A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.”

Source : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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