- "heavy with submerged intent" ("The Secret Goldfish", David Means)
- "physical manifestation of a fact" ("The Secret Goldfish", David Means)
- "imbued with a melancholy philosophy" ("Minuet", Guy de Maupassant)
- "elemental simplicity" (forgot)
- "I just can't get out of what I'm into with you," ("All We Ask" by Grizzly Bear)
- "moon logic"
- "I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married." ( Franny and Zooey , J.D. Salinger)
- No One Belongs Here More Than You (novel by Miranda July)
- "Only unfulfilled love can be romantic." ( Vicky Christina Barcelona )
- "But on the very threshold of sleep, in the no-man’s-land of muddled concepts, he was suddenly certain he had just discovered the solution to all riddles, the key to all mysteries, a new utopia, a paradise," (_The Unbearable Lightness of Being_, Milan Kundera)
- "For all my education, accomplishments and so-called wisdom, I can't fathom my own heart." (Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters )
- "We were placeholders that forgot to move on.", "I smiled at him from the water before singing to my knees and letting the cold water rise over my collarbones, over my ears, over my head." ("Orient Point" from Other People We Married by Emma Straub)
- "Pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice." Unknown
- "In Madeline's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable." ( The Marriage Plot , Jeffrefy Eugenides)
- "...good humor curdling into sarcasm." ( The Stranger's Child , Alan Hollinhurst)
- "...breathtaking merging of word, image and fact." ( The Stranger's Child , Alan Hollinhurst)
- "Ambivalence is the state of modern man." - Unknown
apr 4 2009 ∞
aug 21 2013 +