Maegwin Quotes

#1. Maegwin de Romily woke with a headache on the morning of her execution. As she roused from frightening dreams she became aware of smells first: damp stone, rotting straw, an undercurrent of urine.

Elizabeth Baxter

#2. It was evident from both Hux's tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt.

Alan Dean Foster

#3. Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

Umberto Eco

#4. The problem with boys your age is that they're your age.

Karen Bennett

#5. I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

Cassandra Clare

#6. A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Malcolm Forbes

#7. Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.

Eva Mendes

#8. Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

W. H. Auden

#9. If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ...

Fanny Howe

#10. The pain of retirement means loss.

John Murray

#11. Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!

Catherynne M Valente

#12. The poetic image [ ... ] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

Gaston Bachelard

#13. Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

Shailene Woodley

#14. A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Ai Weiwei

#15. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.

Neil Gaiman