fuck yeah, literary quotes

"I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say..."

Mon, 02 May 2011 05:45:05 -0400

“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”

- Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg

"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion."

Sun, 01 May 2011 17:15:06 -0400

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”

- The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

"She didn’t like to be talked about. Equally, she didn’t like not to be talked about,..."

Sun, 01 May 2011 11:30:05 -0400

“She didn’t like to be talked about. Equally, she didn’t like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people’s feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.”

- The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt

"It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it...."

Sun, 01 May 2011 05:45:06 -0400

“It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

"Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:15:05 -0400

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

- The Call of the Wild, Jack London

"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but..."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:30:05 -0400

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain..."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:45:05 -0400

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:15:05 -0400

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:30:05 -0400

“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

- Dune, Frank Herbert

"I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life."

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:45:05 -0400

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

- The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg

"Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always..."

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:15:05 -0400

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.”

- Possession, A.S. Byatt

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:30:06 -0400

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit..."

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:45:06 -0400

“I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”

- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

"I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:15:05 -0400

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”

- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

"No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:30:06 -0400

“No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.”

- The Star Rover, Jack London

"If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:45:06 -0400

“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.”

- Dune, Frank Herbert

"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought..."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:15:05 -0400

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”

- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:20:38 -0400

“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”

- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready..."

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:45:06 -0400

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.”

- Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

"I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do..."

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:15:06 -0400

“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”

- The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, William S. Burroughs