Margaret Edson Quotes

#1. You cannot imagine how time ... can be ... so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce.

Margaret Edson

#2. Humans are cruel.

Kelsey Sutton

#3. The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

Margaret Edson

#4. I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

Laurel-Rain Snow

#5. Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.

Helen Oyeyemi

#6. Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Neil Finn

#7. It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

Margaret Edson

#8. You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.

Cassandra Clare

#9. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work

Margaret Edson

#10. With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Marcel Proust

#11. Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

Margaret Edson

#12. I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#13. But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

Alan Rawlings

#14. There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

Mikky Ekko

#15. My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Margaret Edson