“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.” - 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, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had t...
“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.” - 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 hate.” - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
“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...
“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.” - Dune, Frank Herbert
“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 both frightening and enchantingly desirable.” - Possession, A.S. Byatt
“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 of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put ...
“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 bl...
“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...
“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 to people with imaginations of her own.” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
“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 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 before I can go.” - The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, William S. Burroughs
““But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.” - Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” - The Handmaid’s T...
“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.” - Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in eve...
“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.” - The Handmaid’s Tale, Marg...
“No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We...
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.” - Great Expectations, C...
“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve...
“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.” - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
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