December 2010
November 2010
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire...”
– Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I love this book. The movie’s not half bad either.
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could...”
– Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
– Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“She grinned at me. ‘You got types?’
Only you darling - lanky brunettes with...”
– The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want...”
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I.LOVE.THIS.
“Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of...”
– Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible...”
– Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”
– Orlando, Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I’ve always loved Virginia Woolf. One of my favorites.
“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape,...”
– Orlando, Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
