Julia Winterson Quotes

She wrote the names of the day's cakes on the board: traditional Southern red velvet cake and peach pound cake, but also green tea and honey macaroons and cranberry doughnuts. She knew the more unusual things would sell out first. It had taken nearly a year, but she'd won over her regulars with her skill with what they already knew, so now they would try anything she made. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Julia laughed. It was a great laugh, and hearing it was like stepping into a pot of sunshine. That she came bearing cake seemed oddly fitting. It was like she was made of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside- with her sweet laugh and pink streak in her hair- but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside. Emily suspected it might be something dark. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

And I've had vocal training on and off for years. ~ Julia Barr

I leave behind a wake of splintered wood and broken buildings and scared, know-nothing boys. ~ Julia Drake

It‟s not your fault you had no siblings," he told her. "You have no experience in intrafamilial squabbles. Trust me, it all works out in the end. I predict we shall manage to get all four to adulthood with at least fifteen of their major limbs intact. ~ Julia Quinn

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. ~ Gloria Steinem

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them. ~ Julia Stiles

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core. ~ Julia Cameron

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. ~ Mary Wesley

She smiled serenely. "I shall put aside my feelings for the dowager countess if you care for one of her daughters ... " She looked up hopefully. "Do you care for one of her daughters?"
"I have no idea," Benedict admitted. "I never got her name. Just her glove."
Violet gave him a stern look. "I'm not even going to ask how you obtained her glove."
"It was all very innocent, I assure you."
Violet's expression was dubious in the extreme. "I have far too many sons to believe that," she muttered. ~ Julia Quinn

She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late. ~ Jeanette Winterson

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerably
less flat than the floor.
"Owww!" he yelled.
Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn't mean it.
"If you think I can understand that," he growled, "you're crazier than I'd originally thought. ~ Julia Quinn

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that ~ Julia Cameron

There's someone here."
"I know." She said, "Where's Scott?"
"I'm not sure," He said, "I thought you were going to wait outside with Nichole and Matt."
"We decided to come in."
"You mean they're in here too?"
"Yes."
"Okay ... " He said calmly, "You stay here."
She nodded as he turned to go.
"Oh, and Carrie."
"Yes?"
"Could you actually listen to me this time?" He asked with a faint smile on his face. ~ Julia Barkey

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them. ~ Julia Cameron

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva. ~ Julia Barr

And could it even really be called a kiss? It had been very, very
short. And did it mean anything if the kisser (him) had been feeling
terribly grateful to the kissee (her) and possibly even indebted, in
the most elemental of ways?
She'd saved his life, after all. A kiss was not entirely out of
order.
Plus, he had said, "Forgive me." Did it count as a kiss if the
kisser had asked for forgiveness?
Honoria thought not. ~ Julia Quinn

If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts we'd all have a Merry Christmas. ~ Julia Mills

You are always looking at people like this." And then she made a face, one he couldn't possibly begin to describe.
"If I ever look like that," he said dryly, "precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me. ~ Julia Quinn

Good," Colin muttered, taking a bite. "I'm famished." "How can you think of food?" Gregory said angrily. "I always think of food," Colin replied, his eyes searching the table until he located the butter. "What else is there?" "Your wife," Benedict drawled. ~ Julia Quinn

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see. ~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Suddenly, the shadow disappeared through the wall!
Maybe the shadow disappeared again.Can we please go back home now?I really don't like it here & I'm scared! Julia pleaded.
The shadow was standing by a very small cage, pointing its long, thin finger towards the floor. ~ Magda M. Olchawska

Julia never asked herself why bad things happen to good people, for she already knew the answer: bad things happen t everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience- that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear,of feeling pain,or wading into the sea of sorrow. Why should her life be any different? Why should she expect special, favoured treatment? Even Mother Teresa suffered, and she was a saint. ~ Sylvain Reynard

You could have had me in the orchard. I would have let you." -Julia ~ Sylvain Reynard

I became the pit of the fruit that had once been me, my meat eaten slowly, bite by fleshy bite. ~ Julia Fine

Scotland is so gorgeous that every time I'm there, I start to dream of living there. I want to buy one of those whitewashed cottages with the thatch roofs and gaze out at the sea and read my books. I want to be away from the Internet and the news and lawn mowers at 7 A.M. on Sunday mornings. ~ Julia London

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello. ~ Julia Kent

Simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light. ~ Julia McNair Wright

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism. ~ Julia Cameron

He always smelled like warm wood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink. Funny how he managed that. Funny how his smell was in her bed.
Henry's eyelids fluttered open.
Funny how he was in her bed. ~ Julia Quinn

As for the bitter herbs ... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point - bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering ... ~ Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body. ~ Julia Barr

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me? ~ Julia Cameron

I'm a Native American actress. ~ Julia Jones

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. ~ Julia Caroline Dorr

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. ~ Jeanette Winterson

What has been seen cannot be unseen ~ Julia Spencer-Fleming

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.
Julia to Charles ~ Evelyn Waugh

What does it mean to trust, and how do I become more trusting? What I know so far is this: when I approach life's uncertainty with a willingness to not know the answers, more is possible than I could ever dream of. ~ Julia Aziz

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. ~ Rufus Sewell