22 Quotes by Lynn Cullen

There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.

Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

Did Mr. Poe write as a boy?Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world

In spite of Mr. Poe's fame, the pair made me feel out of sorts, and sad. In one of the busiest cities in the world, they seemed to exist on a bleak island of their own making, their backs turned against the social tide lapping at the battered door.

What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.

The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves.

Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.

Madness,” he said quietly, “is as a drop of ink in water. It sends sly tendrils from the afflicted person into everyone around until all are shaded in black. Soon one does not know who is mad and who is not.