Ten of My Favorite Elizabeth Hand Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Elizabeth Hand, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Elizabeth Hand you will find my Ten favorites of Elizabeth Hand’s quotes.
About Elizabeth Hand
A New York Times notable author with multiple awards to her credit, Elizabeth Hand is the author of seven novels, including the cult classic Waking the Moon, as well as short-story collections. There has been a longstanding relationship between her and numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. Her family divides their time between their home on the coast of Maine and their home in North London with her two children.
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Popular Quotes
“Our gaze changes all that it falls upon. ”
― Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They moved above her and the sunlight made them glow as though they were themselves made of light, fragments of another, brighter world falling to earth about her crib. Her tiny hands stretched upwards to grasp them but could not: they were too elusive, too radiant, too much of the air.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Poe’s Children: The New Horror
“No lights shone beyond the windows of his room. The reflection from the bedside lamp seemed insubstantial as a candle flame; the darkness outside a solid mass, huge and inescapable, that pressed against the panes. His room sat beneath the eaves, where the wind didn’t roar but crooned, a sound like mourning doves.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Errantry: Strange Stories
“But talent—if you don’t encourage it, if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn’t matter how fast it is. It’s useless.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
“Endless longing; a face you’d known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you’d die for, and die of.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Radiant Days
“At the door I paused. ‘So what was your spirit animal?’
A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?’
Dee Dee Ramone,’ I said, and left.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
“You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
“If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Waking the Moon
10 Famous Quotes by Author Elizabeth Hand
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One Final Bonus – Elizabeth Hand Quote
“I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. ‘I waded in but I couldn’t find him. I mean, is it possible – the water wasn’t deep enough for him to drown. It doesn’t make any sense.’
My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn’t get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?’ Ted stubbed out his cigarette.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Radiant Days
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