“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
- James Baldwin
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
- Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
- Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother’s bosom or rode on our father’s back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”
- George Eliot, Adam Bede
“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he’d go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”
- Raymond Carver, Distance and Other Stories
“He had an inexplicable contempt for men who did not hurl themselves into pools.”
- John Cheever, The Swimmer
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“One is what one is, partly at least.”
- Samuel Beckett
Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
