Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Paula Altenburg

Quote by Paula Altenburg

“Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman.” Her handmaid sighed. “When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.”

Quote by Paula Altenburg

Book:The Demon Lord
Create image

Work

The Demon Lord

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Paula Altenburg

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Paula Altenburg. more

You May Also Like

“The tight dress she'd put on was white with a pattern of green vines. Seeing Mavis in it reminded Wilf of a statue he'd once found behind a garden hedge. That pale, marble woman, stuck outside, all by herself, had been covered with ivy. He'd felt so sorry for her. It must have taken a long time for all of those green, leafy ropes to wrap themselves around her. He still wondered, didn't anybody look out for her? Take care of her? Didn't she matter to anyone?”

Wilf
Book:And Then...
Create image

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners – all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. [...] But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. [...] It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world.”

LifeCitiesLondonCity LifeMetropolis
Book:The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition
Create image

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.”

LifeCitiesHistoryLondonRenewalCity LifeMetropolisCircle Of LifeFictional LondonLiterary London
Book:Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Create image

“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while you weren't at work. Drugs were something you did sometimes when you couldn't deal with one of those things, or with yourself. The City was so expensive and so grueling sometimes that it was easy to be unsure why you were there. Many were there to make money, money that could largely only be made there, in the long spiny arms of industries that could never grow anywhere else or anywhere smaller. Some people just liked it, its loudness and crowdedness and surprises. Some started there for a reason and then couldn't imagine being anywhere else, but maybe lost track of that reason along the way. Some people had a plan. Some were just chancing it. Either way the months flew by, and over the years you came up with something or you came up with not much.”

LoveLifeSexWorkCitiesPlansGoalsDrugsCity LifeMetropolisUrban LifeMetropolisesUrban Fabric
Book:Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
Create image