Quotes About Briony

#1. Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.

Ian McEwan

#2. Things change, Briony. You can't stop them, and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try.

Kailin Gow

#3. He scooped up my arm, swung me round. "Let go, Cecil," I said. "I've a strange dislike of being forced." "But Briony," he said, "I'm so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!" Why didn't he?

Franny Billingsley

#4. You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story.

Tad Williams

#5. And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault."
"It isn't?"
"No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb."
Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

Christine Feehan

#6. Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread - and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious.

Tad Williams

#7. Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

Ian McEwan

#8. Briony scared?" said Eldric. "I've never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron.

Franny Billingsley

#9. Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of her assent - how the tilt of a skull could change a life! - Lola had picked up the bundle of Briony's manuscript from

Ian McEwan

#10. Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty - a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless - if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

Tad Williams

#11. I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot.
Only Jack would ask - if you could call it asking - in the middle of a battlefield, with a man lying dead at his feet.

Christine Feehan

#12. Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

Stevie Wonder

#13. So, basically, I have the impossible task of finding a non-smelly, drug-free virgin?

Isabelle Rowan

#14. Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll start missing everybody.

J.D. Salinger

#15. Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.

Cristiane Serruya

#16. You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Alan Furst

#17. For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Xenophanes

#18. In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

T. B. Joshua

#19. It's all a question of attitude.

Kerstin Gier

#20. If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

Cameron Conaway

#21. Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Ray Bradbury

#22. The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Denzel Washington

#23. She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.

Ian McEwan

#24. It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

Ingrid Newkirk

#25. Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Mason Cooley

#26. He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart."
The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.

Sherry Thomas

#27. The weak hold onto grudges;
the great hold onto love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn't let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil.

Ian McEwan

#29. Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

Bryant McGill