Madeleine Wickham citáty

strana 4

“So do I. You.”

“Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!”

“Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message."

Which is true. I mean… take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.”

“You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone… it's forever.”

“Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like… a feeling.”

“Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.”

“We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.”

“Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.”

“So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.”

“Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.”

“Carried away.
He got a little carried away.
This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.”

“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”

“Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.”

“You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either!
I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!”

“I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.”

“Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush.

I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.”

“I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan”

“Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?”

“Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?”

“Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace”