Dorothy dunnett inspirational quotes

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
&#; Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”
&#; Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
&#; Dorothy Dunnett

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
&#; Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”
&#; Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being d