Van Duyn Quotes

#1. One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...

Mona Van Duyn

#2. A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable.

Lauren Beukes

#3. Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

Mona Van Duyn

#4. In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.

Mona Van Duyn

#5. Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.

Harriette Simpson Arnow

#6. No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

Jacobo Timerman

#7. The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

Mona Van Duyn

#8. There is no disorder but the heart's.

Mona Van Duyn

#9. My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

Tim Cahill

#10. If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

Laini Taylor

#11. And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.

Charles Dickens

#12. It's like the man is an open book but whatever his story is just happens to be written in a different language.

J.M. Darhower

#13. I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

Mike Lee

#14. I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

Mona Van Duyn

#15. The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.

Mona Van Duyn

#16. No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use.

Howard Jacobson

#18. After all, everything in here is just pieces of paper with words and lines on them. They're not even very valuable.
Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world ... They always have.

Elizabeth Camden