"A Great and Terrible Beauty" Quotes

Sometimes I think I was born backwards. You know, came out my mum the wrong way. I hear words go past me backwards. The people I should love, I hate. And the people I hate...

I suppose all mothers are like that. They don't want their children to grow up. A child is a balm. It is a warm, cuddly blanket that they can cover themselves with to shut out the cold, hard world.

I'm not your friend. I don't want to be your friend. I want to be much more than that.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

It's my experience, one moment at a time. It's all I have. I don't want to wish for anything else.

You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

What do you think a first kiss should be like? Should it be soft? Or a little rough? Or should it be to the death?

I've always felt a little bit like a motherless child. It's been hard for me to believe that you could love me, that you can love me.

She had been proud, had been scornful, had been angry, had been so terribly alone.

I guess you could say I'm a little more than frightened. It's more like I feel responsible.