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“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
Source : Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
#Book Quotes
#Enough Quotes
#Plans Quotes
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“Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
Source : Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan
#Drug Quotes
#Nerves Quotes
#Tools Quotes
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“No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
Source : Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.110, Pan Macmillan
#Want Quotes
#Behind You Quotes
#Wonder Quotes
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“It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
#Passion Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Afternoon Quotes
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“This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
#Growing Up Quotes
#Loss Quotes
#Cliche Quotes
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“Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
#People Quotes
#Feels Quotes
#Absent Quotes
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“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
#Years Quotes
#Year End Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room, I enjoyed traveling back and forth between the perspectives of the patients and that of the therapist - with the irony that with your therapist, you are at least supposed to be your most authentic self.”
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Sylvia Brownrigg
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Moving Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
#Perspective Quotes
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