Emma Quotes - Page 4

• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake, Book, Character

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• For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Ideas, Violet, Peculiar

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• What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Law, Names

  Dennis Lehane (2012). “Live by Night: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Women, Safety

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.172

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• I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Crazy, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.182, Tammara Webber

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• I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, Niece, Aunt

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• You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

  Rick Riordan

  Car, Liz, Said

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

  Daniel Handler

  Butterfly, Bats, Montana

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2000.

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• The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beach, Stars, Fall

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• Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.

  Rachel Vincent

  School, Average, Zombie

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• Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.

  Sophie Barthes

  Fighting, Men, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Genius, Baudelaire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster

  Mother, Drama, Law

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• I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

  Frank Zappa

  Legs, Bigs, Dilemma

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• The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season.

  Steve Donoghue

  Beautiful, Jobs, Book

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• Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Simple, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

  Kara Hayward

  School, Intelligent, Two

  "A Chat With ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Actress Kara Hayward And A Salute To Wes Anderson’s Leading Ladies". Interview with Simone Kitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Tired, Adultery, Banality

  gustave flaubert (1950). “madame bovary”

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mistake, Apology, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Doubt, Accepting

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.34, Wild Jot Press

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• We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Way, Blame, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 24, 2014

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• Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

  Howard Zinn

  Character, Men, Female

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Strong, Able, Austen

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• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Kissing, Intelligent, Years

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