Gollancz Quotes

#1. All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

Susan Ertz

#2. Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires ... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does.

Elizabeth Smart

#3. You're my one good thing now.

Kirsten Miller

#4. I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Jane Austen

#5. The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything.

James Frey

#7. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

William Arthur Ward

#8. People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don't, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff.

Anthony Greenwald

#9. Max realized that an explanation was no longer important. "I'm here because I love you," he said simply.

Diana Lanham

#10. The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

Victor Gollancz

#11. Understanding is love's other name.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. So is that what people call sweet nothings? Because somehow, I expected it to be a little more . . . complimentary.

Susan Ee

#13. And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?

Rollo May

#14. A regular ray of sunshine, isn't he?" Orion said sarcastically, acting more like himself again. "Oh, and that's his 'happy face' by the way.

Josephine Angelini

#15. Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic.

Susan Fletcher

#16. I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Victor Gollancz