December 2010
“We are so divorced from it [life] that we feel at once a sort of loathing for...”
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via nymphora)
“Nathaniel remembers feeling dirty, so dirty that he thought he could take a...”
– Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match (via daniellekiemel)
“And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them:...”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted (via daniellekiemel)
“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of...”
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at.”
– W. H. Auden (via sidoza)
“Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the...”
– W H Auden (via sidoza)
“Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run...”
– W H Auden (via sidoza)
“Clear, unscaleable ahead,
Rise the mountains of instead
From whose cold,...”
– W H Auden (via sidoza)
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via aphroditezoe:
“I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching...”
– The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“He’s splitting me open, I thought. He’ll break me and then I’ll die.”
– She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
egregious-ki:
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– The Iliad, Homer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy...”
– Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“…you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to...”
– ‘Tis: A Memoir, Frank McCourt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It...”
– A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
– The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
