Trevelyan Notebooks Quotes

#1. To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

Marlene Dietrich

#2. She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.

Henry James

#3. I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

Casey James

#4. The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.

George R R Martin

#5. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Anais Nin

#6. The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

Annie Dillard

#7. If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

Ellen DeGeneres

#8. If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

Andy Stanley

#9. It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Aidan Gillen

#10. Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.

Matthew Kelly

#11. Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

Richard Siken

#12. Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

John Steinbeck

#13. Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

Glen Duncan