Fiona Barry

"I quote others only to better express myself." -- Montaigne, Essays (I.26)

[itsalwaysprettyinrosewood]

[fionabarry]

“If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos...Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.”

― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

[fionabarry]

“A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.” 

― Angela Carter, Wise Children

[fionabarry]

'It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.'

-- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

[fionabarry]

“War is what happens when language fails.” 

― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

[fionabarry]

“In some hallway where love’s never been.”

– Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz”

[fionabarry]

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.” ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

[prettylittlegreene]

What would they do without Mona, though?

[fionabarry]

“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.” ― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

[fionabarry]

“The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.” ― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

[fionabarry]

“Every letter was a love letter.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

[fionabarry]

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.” ― Jane Austen, Emma

[fionabarry]

"The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves to keep them all in order." -- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

[fionabarry]

“Her voice is like gravel spread with honey.”

— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

[fionabarry]

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

-- Jane Austen, Emma

[fionabarry]

“He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.” ― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

[fionabarry]

“The three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate." -- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[fionabarry]

“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we’re so ready for our rebellious phase we can’t help but feel it’s safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.”

 — Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight