Catherine Lowell Quotes

People evaporated in alcohol, the way people evaporated in dreams.

Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it carefully.

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.

The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

When you are older, you will realize that the things you feel to be true don't require verbal confirmation.

Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator.

His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.

I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.

You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?

My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.

Love, like good fiction, can create reality from nothing.

I had injected more of myself than I had ever intended into our nonexistent relationship. Now I would have to relocate the bits and pieces of myself that I had lost, and put myself back together, like a waterlogged puzzle whose pieces didn't quite fit anymore.

Focused men are painfully attractive.

[T]o tell a good story, you need courage. Courage to fully become someone else, even if -- and especially if -- that person was a more vulnerable version of yourself.

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.

I used the phrases Jungian realism and linear archetypes, and congratulated myself on achieving a level of douchbaggery I had previously only witnessed in shampoo commercials for men.