Von Strassenberg Quotes

#1. I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg

Gwenn Wright

#2. My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

Gwenn Wright

#3. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Gwenn Wright

#4. They don't teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Gwenn Wright

#5. He will be sorry for the way he treated you,
Don't you worry about that. Focus on your growth and watch his eyes gaze in sorrow as he knows, he was the bastard that made you strong.

Nikki Rowe

#6. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

Gwenn Wright

#7. I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

Mark Shand

#8. I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

Joshua Mohr

#9. Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.

Gwenn Wright

#10. I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

Rachel Tucker

#11. Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. "Doesn't matter now," he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third

Gwenn Wright

#12. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#13. His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Veronica Roth

#14. At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

Lee Daniels

#15. To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.

Hal Edward Runkel

#16. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

Gwenn Wright

#17. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

Gwenn Wright

#18. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure

Gwenn Wright

#19. Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

Bell Hooks

#20. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Gwenn Wright

#21. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Gwenn Wright

#22. The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory ... without emptiness.

Allie Burke

#23. Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

James Baldwin

#24. How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Gwenn Wright

#25. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

Gwenn Wright

#26. If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall?

Gwenn Wright

#27. The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

George Eliot

#28. I write constantly about everything.

Tom Sturridge

#29. He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

Gwenn Wright

#30. Different century. It's totally okay.

Gwenn Wright

#31. I meddled in things that man must leave alone

R. C. Sherriff