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

“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

02 maj 11 1 person likes this

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

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” - The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

01 maj 11

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

“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...

01 maj 11

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

“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

01 maj 11

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

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.” - The Call of the Wild, Jack London

30 apr 11

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

“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

30 apr 11

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

“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...

30 apr 11

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

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

29 apr 11

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

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

29 apr 11

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

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.” - The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg

29 apr 11

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

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.” - Possession, A.S. Byatt

28 apr 11

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

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

28 apr 11 1 person likes this

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

“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 ...

28 apr 11 1 person likes this

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

“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...

27 apr 11

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

“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...

27 apr 11

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

“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.” - Dune, Frank Herbert

27 apr 11 1 person likes this

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

“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

26 apr 11

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

“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.” - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

26 apr 11

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

“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

30 mar 11

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

“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

29 mar 11

"But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t..."

““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

29 mar 11

"But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind...

“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...

29 mar 11

"I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place."

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.” - Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk

28 mar 11

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, si...

“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...

28 mar 11 2 people like this

"They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word und...

“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...

28 mar 11 1 person likes this

"No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s..."

“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...

27 mar 11

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.&#...

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

27 mar 11

"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on...

“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...

27 mar 11

"A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pr...

“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...

26 mar 11 1 person likes this

"Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is."

“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.” - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs

26 mar 11

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