May 2011
4 posts
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“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might...”
– Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg
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“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
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“She didn’t like to be talked about. Equally, she didn’t like not to...”
– The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
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“It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you...”
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
April 2011
14 posts
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“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
– The Call of the Wild, Jack London
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“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart...”
– Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany,...”
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I...”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
– Dune, Frank Herbert
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“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
– The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg
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“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable....”
– Possession, A.S. Byatt
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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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“I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I...”
– Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud...”
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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“No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language...”
– The Star Rover, Jack London
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“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.”
– Dune, Frank Herbert
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“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a...”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
– Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
March 2011
32 posts
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“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But...”
– Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
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“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for...”
– The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, William S. Burroughs
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“But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him.
“That...”
– Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow,...”
– The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
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“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct...”
– Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
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“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities...”
– The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
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“No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not...”
– Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of...”
– The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
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“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back,...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to...”
– The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
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“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
– Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
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“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
– Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
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“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the...”
– The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
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“What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You...”
– The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
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“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in...”
– A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the...”
– The Stand, Stephen King
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“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become...”
– Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
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“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters...”
– The Iliad, Homer
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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat...”
– To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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“That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take...”
– The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
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“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is...”
– The Odyssey, Homer
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“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.”
– It, Stephen King
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“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come...”
– Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can tell the others by...”
– The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
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“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart...”
– The Iliad, Homer
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“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The...”
– Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King
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“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance...”
– Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
– Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
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“I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any...”
– The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.”
– To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee