22 Quotes by Amy Witting

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.

This world. This human race. It isn’t divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it’s divided into sexes but it isn’t. It’s the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.

The word divorce which stood stark in the future reached back into the past, how far?

How easy it all was, to get drunk, to go mad, to vandalise, to commit fraud. Perhaps she had always had criminal tendencies;

Moral decisions. She had thought she was done with them. You did your best and then wondered for the rest of your life if you'd done the right thing.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

One needs to be briefed before one talks to writers

Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.