Norah Lofts Quotes

#1. If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones

Charity Parkerson

#2. Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

Ian McKellen

#3. Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

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#4. She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Steve Martin

#5. Because she bears the image of God. She doesn't have to conjure it, go get it from a salon, have plastic surgery or breast implants. No, beauty is an essence that is given to every woman at her creation.

John Eldredge

#6. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge

Norah Lofts

#7. It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

Snoop Dogg

#8. Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a bit of fungus on the surface of a splinter of a dying star.

Norah Lofts

#9. He hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.

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#10. Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

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#11. Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner ...

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#12. The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

Norah Lofts

#14. Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.

Norah Lofts

#15. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

Roxane Gay

#16. Note to self; try to act normal when coming in contact with the prettiest boy you've ever seen. Note. Mouth closing and drool sucked back in and hopefully not noticed. Check.

Amy Lunderman

#17. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.

Norah Lofts