63 Quotes by Theodora Goss

CATHERINE: I can’t write from Diana’s point of view.MARY: Of course you can. You’re a writer; you can write anything. Just find your inner Diana.CATHERINE: I don’t have an inner Diana.DIANA: Ha! You wish. Everyone has an inner Diana.

For the first time, Mary understood the attraction of coffee. If you have been up all night, escaping from a burning mental asylum or fighting men who refuse to die when you shoot them in the forehead, or both, coffee is the perfect beverage.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

Well, there’s one thing that gives me hope.”“What’s that?” asked Beatrice, shaking out one of the blankets and wrapping it around herself.Catherine smiled. It was a grim smile. “Diana’s with them. There is no situation so well-planned that Diana can’t introduce chaos into it. Whoever is holding them, wherever they’re being held, is going to regret it.

They would not live happily ever after, because no one did that. But they would be together, and that was enough.

... watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone?

This was it, a part of him thought--what he had been waiting for, longing for, all his life. The answer to the loneliness he'd felt since he was a child and that others didn't seem to feel.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

I stop listening when academics start mixing their Greek and Latin roots. That never leads anywhere productive.