18 Quotes by Kim Wright

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

The blending, of course, is the challenge. Most creatures who are special cannot seem to stop themselves from announcing the fact, despite the dangers that come with being different from the rest of your species. If you tie a red string around a wren’s leg, the others in the flock will peck it to death.

I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.

It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.