December 2010
21 posts
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He’s splitting me open, I thought. He’ll break me and then...
– She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a...
– Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.
– Herzog, Saul Bellow
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a...
– Orlando, Virginia Woolf
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Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.
– Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
– Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
– Orlando, Virginia Woolf
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I think… the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life...
– She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the...
– A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will...
– The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not...
– The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
– The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
– Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
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Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that...
– A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
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If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me.
– Herzog, Saul Bellow
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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
– The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
– All’s Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous...
– An Autobiography, Agatha Christie
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I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be...
– Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.
– To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee