Yossarian decided to change the subject. Now youre changing the subject, he pointed out diplomatically. Ill bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful f...
[...]When you asked me if I was an island, I told you that I was not. When you asked me to join you in the drawing room, I told you that I could not, that I was in fact an island and I couldnt join a...
She was learning the value of boredom. She was clearing out her mind. She had always know that her body was just a shell she lived in, but it occurred to her now that her mind was yet another shell- ...
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, its not because they enjoy solitude. Its because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disapp...
I dont remember a single monster before I met you, hed told the Amphibian. Now they seem to be all over the place.You mean there wasnt anything you were afraid of? the Amphibian had asked him.Lots.Wh...
"Here, in the luminous hollow of a tree stump that had been blasted by lightning and whittled clean by the winds of knowledge, they alighted ont he outstretched hands of the goddess. Athene was i...
"And whereas woman is the foundation of sin, the weapon of the devil, the cause of mans banishment from Paradise, and whereas, for these reasons, all association with her is to be diligently avoi...
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. The man who who never reads lives only one."-A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinI do not consider the Game of Thrones ...
♥ If I had a daughter, I would tell her what a funny thing love is, how it never looks the way you think it’s going to, how no matter how old you get, it is love that keeps surprising you. How...
"You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breat...
He was taken from the kindergarten. His nurse, Nana, in her starched gingham dress, became the center of his tiny world. On bright days they walked in the park; Nana would point at a great gray monst...
Come hereand take off your clothesand with themevery single worryyou have ever carried.My fingertips on your backwill be the very last thingyou will feelbefore sleepingand the sound of my smilewill b...
There, in abstraction and stillness, (I had gone off by myself to absorb the scene, to have the spell unbroken,) the copiousness, the removedness, vitality, loose-clear-crowdedness, of that stellar c...
♥ Christ, how Teddy envied Chuck. His ability to believe in the words he spoke. In silly flirtations. In his easy-GIs penchant for quick, meaningless word-play. But most of all for the weightl...
It was not without hesitation that Laurence had offered to take in her friend and care for her. She fully expected to find in Pauline some vestige of prejudice an...
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he aff...
There are few of us now, soon There will be none. We were comrades Together, we believed we Would see with our own eyes the new World where man was no longer Wolf to man, but men and women Were all b...
"Some people achieve their humility by prayer and fasting, some by great charitable works. My own method is to behave in public like a complete moron every three months or so." - The Book of ...
"Aunt, Im very fond of opals, too.""I am very sorry, but you are not to wear them. I wont allow it."Dumbfounded, Gilbert remained for a moment open-mouthed."Oh! Do you too, Aunt, ...
Hello readers,I am wondering if any of you read The Lovely Bones. I saw the movie last night and am wondering how the book might be. Granted, books are usually better than movies so what do you have ...
On her first drug trip, D freaked out; that is the drug term, and there is no better. She started to laugh, and her mouth opened wide and she could not close it; her armor had cracked, and all the ni...
Suicide is just a moment. This is how she described it to me. For just a moment, it doesn’t matter that you’ve got people who love you and the sun is shining and there’s a movie coming out this weeke...
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Soon the only people attending were those who never asked questions, and the sessions were discontinued altogether, since Clevinger, the corporal and Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither poss...
♥ Teddy said, "At Dachau, the SS guards surrendered to us. Five hundred of them. Now there were reporters there, but theyd seen all the bodies piled up at the train station too. They could...
♥ "I was fired for pessimism. Communism had nothing to do with it.""I got him fired," said his wife. "The only piece of real evidence produced against him was a letter I wr...
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something qu...
"but the bravest man of all--the one who has the best and most unimpeachable right and claim to courage, is the man, who, to shield and protect others, accepts open insult and submits unmurmurin...
By W.S. MerwinSentry of the other sideit may have watchednthe beginningwithout being noticed in allthat blossoming radiancethe beggar in dark ragsdown on the dark threshold a shadow waiting in its ow...
Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust.There never was a war that was not inward; I mustfight till I have conquered in myself whatcauses war, but I would not believe it.I ...
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