- 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]
- "Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." - John Keats
- "I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of syncronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone." - Charles de Lint
- "Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love." - Emma Watson
- "I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved." - Shana Abé
- "I’m the hero of the story, don’t need to be saved." - Regina Spektor
- "I’ve wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn’t see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away. I’m looking for the truth.” And so it goes away. Puzzling." - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance[Robert M. Pirsig]
- "There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people." - I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell[Tucker Max]
- "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- "If things start happening, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too." - Dr. Seuss
- "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them." - John Waters
- "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." - The Alchemist[Paulo Coehlo]
- "We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language." - The Common Reader[Virginia Woolf]
- "It's Thanksgiving. Some people bake pie, we bake ourselves." - Kelso[That 70s Show]
- "Because it’s weird that in our culture, for some reason, marriage is something thrust upon women. Like boys get to spend six months deciding if they want to get married but then the girl only has like 10 seconds to say yes or no?" - John Green
- "Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle." - Vladimir Nabokov
- "My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. I’m two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren’t attached." - Fernando Pessoa
- "The crime isn't the hard part. The hard part is getting away with it." - Neal Caffrey[White Collar]
- "How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a “fuck.” I’ll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I’d be like, “And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers.” How could you not, if you’re a human being? Maybe they’re not so admirable. Maybe they’re robot zombies." - A Long Way Down[Nick Hornby]
apr 26 2011 ∞
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