February 2012
7 posts
“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away,...”
– Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (via bookssay)
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,” she had once said. “Take them away...”
– Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (via thegirlandherbooks)
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via bookssay)
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via libraryland)
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (via litmusings)
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably...”
– John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via penumbr0us)
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God (via hateshiploveship)
“Is it not astonishing that, in a world full of icebergs, none of us ever sees...”
– Andrew Nicoll, The Love and Death of Caterina (via hell0-hurricane)
January 2012
19 posts
“Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”
– T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (via proustitute)
“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She...”
– D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (via hateshiploveship)
“The things that prevent us from killing ourselves are different from those that...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss (via lollidella-dream)
“If an answer were possible death would not travel alongside life, life would not...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via sunrec)
“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon,...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via wistless)
“I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it —...”
– E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread (via larmoyante)
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire, Candide (via 365books)
“Fiction needs its specifics, its anchors. It needs also to pass beyond them. It...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in the Introduction (via distantheartbeats)
“What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me...”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (via sainttarrou)
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no...”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via bookmania)
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via battleofthezombies)
“She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot. (via ironandsunshine)
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands...”
– On the Road by Jack Kerouac (via petalsquotesandthorns)
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via liquidnight)
“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our...”
– Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (via excessivebookshelf)
“The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love,...”
– Albert Camus, The Rebel (via depressionparty)
“Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via 365books)
December 2011
49 posts
8 tags
“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“And every year there is a brief, startling moment
When we pause in the middle...”
– Edward Hirsch, from “Fall” (via the-final-sentence)
4 tags
“Like Plutarch, Andrew preferred to imagine that the moon was where the dead...”
– Félix J. Palma, The Map of Time (via 365books)
“And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to...”
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (via booklit)
“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...”
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
“I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that...”
– Miranda July, It Chooses You (via chewyourlipstick)
“Alas! the readers of our era are less favoured. But courage! I will not pause...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via distantheartbeats)
“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition … always new books,...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (via misanthropyaddict)
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be...”
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman (via paperlover)
5 tags
“I couldn’t help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
– Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (via colourmegreenwich)
“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world....”
– Lev Grossman, The Magicians (via night-call)
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via distantheartbeats)
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights...”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (via depressionparty)
“When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via sheistoofondofbooks)
“Earth dropped on the coffin; three pebbles fell on the hard shiny surface; and...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Years (via awritersruminations)
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via proustitute)
“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world....”
– Lev Grossman, The Magicians (via night-call)
“And it’s not “clever lonely” (like Morrissey) or “interesting lonely” (like...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (via depressionparty)
“Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (via proustitute)
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via human-voices)
“They will have to do more than they ever thought they could if they want me to...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation (via bookssay)
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via human-voices)
“I know now why coffins seem small; it is because people are so much larger than...”
– Pagan and her Parents, Michael Arditti Submitted by deathsblood (via novelfirstsentences)