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Beatriz Williams QUOTES

1 " Is this different? Does love make lovemaking better? Does Nick feel this holy consummation, this wonder and beauty, this eternity, the way I do? Or is sex simply like this, designed by Nature to fool us all into multiplying? "

― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers

2 " ...you're dazzling. I'm dazzled, I'm upside down and inside out and...God, Vivian. I don't know what to say. There aren't words. I just want to crawl back under the blanket and spend my life doing that with you. And everything else we did today. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

3 " Besides, it seems to me, since my pleasure is more or less a foregone conclusion, the main object of the exercise ought to be your pleasure. A rather elusive creature, I've heard. Fascinating sort of quarry.' 'Wait a minute. You're hunting down my orgasms?' His laughter burst out like a rifle salute. 'Kate. You damned magnificent creature.' He rolled onto his back, bringing me with him. 'Yes, my darling. That's exactly what I'd like to do, on and on until the end of my life. "

― Beatriz Williams , Overseas

4 " Because you learn things when you talk to people, especially people who aren't like you. You learn what a goddamned polyglot race we are, we marvelous human beings. Some people are friendly. Some people are gruff. Some want security. Others want independence. Some want the government to run things. Some want to run things on their own. Some people need a helping hand. Some people need a kick in the pants. Some want to live and to die in the same small town. Some want to ramble the wide world. Some are content with little. Some cannot stop striving. Some want to life beside a true love, to worship a single god. Some crave a universe of loves, a universe of gods. I could go on and on. The differences between them, between me and you, between you and the woman sitting next to you at the hairdresser, wearing that dress you'd never wear in a million years, reading that book you wouldn't touch. The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all, to represent them all. Not just the ones you agree with, the ones that think and act like you do. "

― Beatriz Williams , Tiny Little Thing (Schuyler Sisters, #2)

5 " One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received. "

― Beatriz Williams , Along the Infinite Sea (Schuyler Sisters #3)

6 " Here's the thing about New York, the thing I love most: there is no such substance as silence. If you ever stop talking, and he stops talking, the city takes over for you. A siren forms a distant parabola of sound. A door slams. The old couple in 4A argues over who will answer the telephone. The young lovers in 2C reach an animalistic climax. A million other lives play out on your doorstep, and not one of them gives a damn about your little problems. Life goes on and on and on. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

7 " I wanted the rattle of New York around me, I wanted stink and strangers and the sour dank air of the IRT clutching me to its bosom. I wanted hustle and bustle. I wanted to know that millions of lives were playing out at my doorstep, and not one of them gave a damn about my little problems. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

8 " Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. "

― Beatriz Williams , Along the Infinite Sea (Schuyler Sisters #3)

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― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers

10 " A man had appeared out of nowhere—a thick-shouldered, square-jawed, cleft-chinned all- American of a type Iris hadn’t seen in years. He showed her some friendly white teeth and continued in a slow country cadence designed by God to soothe skittish horses. “Say, I didn’t mean to sneak up on you. "

― Beatriz Williams , Our Woman in Moscow

11 " I consider delivering some nonsense about how the cat’s had a pretty long run, wouldn’t you say, I mean I’ve never heard of a cat living nineteen years. But that’s the last thing you want to hear about something you love. It doesn’t matter if it’s had a long life or a happy life; there’s never enough life. "

― Beatriz Williams , Her Last Flight

12 " What makes you Vivian.' I liked the way he said my name, all throaty on the V's, all stretched to its rightful three syllables. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

13 " I can't bring myself to open my eyes. I am an ember, glowing from the inside out. The dark and silent room keeps everything else at bay, every sensation, except the two of us, Nick and Lily, who have just made love. "

― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers

14 " I was hazy with wine, hazy with Nick. I nestled into my seat and marveled at his endlessness, only inches away, his infinite capacity to shelter me. "

― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers

15 " Turn your head. No, the other way. Out the window.' I turn to the steamed-over plate glass, the shadowed buildings across the street. 'What, like this?' 'Now move your eyes and look at me. Just your eyes. Tilting up a bit. Yes.' He breathes out. 'Just like that. that, Miss Lily Dane, of only the best sorts of places, that is why I couldn't go back to sleep last night. "

― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers

16 " You don't have a civilized self.' 'Yes, I do. Look at me now, quite calm and under control, while you stand right there, a few feet away from me, and the light glows against your skin. Turning you to gold. I don't think there's any higher proof of the power of civilization, that I'm not kissing you senseless. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

17 " All men are brutes. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

18 " I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think. "

― Beatriz Williams , Overseas

19 " I thought, how magical, the first glimspe of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November instant those tiny flakes swirled with the unspeakable purity of a divine gift. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

20 " There's something about the smells of your childhood, isn't there? ... You still remember those small sublime joys with an ache of longing because there's no getting it back, is there? You cannot return to a state of innocence. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Summer Wives