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Images surround us; cavorting broadcast in the minds of others, we wear the motley tailored by their bad digestions, the shame and failure, plague pandemics and private indecencies, unpaid bills, and...

William Gaddis

Images surround us; cavorting broadcast in the minds of others, we wear the motley tailored by their bad digestions, the shame and failure, plague pandemics and private indecencies, unpaid bills, and...

William Gaddis

If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate cir...

Ursula Hegi

If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate cir...

Ursula Hegi

Tags: floating, lightning, mother, mother s palm, mothers and daughters, quarry, spin, twirl, water

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Libba Bray

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Libba Bray

Tags: details, gemma doyle, libba bray, truth

I wanted to feel like he and I belonged to each other, but each time we were together and then after, I felt quite the opposite. And still, I was drawn to him.

Roxane Gay

I wanted to feel like he and I belonged to each other, but each time we were together and then after, I felt quite the opposite. And still, I was drawn to him.

Roxane Gay

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

Marjane Satrapi

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

Marjane Satrapi

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone w...

Virginia Woolf

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone w...

Virginia Woolf

Tags: companionship, friendship, peace, privacy, quietness, solitude

I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has shared her bed.

Charlaine Harris

I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has shared her bed.

Charlaine Harris

Tags: eric northman, humor, sookie stackhouse, upset

I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield

Agatha Christie

I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield

Agatha Christie

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Jack Kerouac

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Jack Kerouac

I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow—I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go craw...

Iris Murdoch

I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow—I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go craw...

Iris Murdoch

Tags: desperate, iris murdoch, loneliness, rejected, selfless, suicidal, the black prince, unlucky

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner...

Annie Dillard

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner...

Annie Dillard

Tags: beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Nev...

Beryl Markham

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Nev...

Beryl Markham

Tags: attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving on, past

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

C.S. Lewis

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

C.S. Lewis

Tags: heaven, inspirational, narnia

I hadn't slept for seven nights.My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, lumin...

Sylvia Plath

I hadn't slept for seven nights.My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, lumin...

Sylvia Plath

I had a feeling of déjà vu when, the next afternoon, Julian answered the door exactly as he had the first time, by opening it only a crack and looking through it warily, as if there were something won...

Donna Tartt

I had a feeling of déjà vu when, the next afternoon, Julian answered the door exactly as he had the first time, by opening it only a crack and looking through it warily, as if there were something won...

Donna Tartt

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

John Green

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

John Green

Tags: the fault in our stars

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

John Green

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

John Green

Tags: augustus waters, beautiful, beauty, hazel, hazel grace, hazel grace lancaster, john green, tfios, the fault in our stars

I don't know whether the spider perhaps does not hate the fly he has marked and is snaring. Dear little fly! It seems to me that the victim is loved, or at least may be loved. Here I love my enemy. I...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't know whether the spider perhaps does not hate the fly he has marked and is snaring. Dear little fly! It seems to me that the victim is loved, or at least may be loved. Here I love my enemy. I...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It...

J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: hobbit, inspirational attitude, sam gamgee, samwise the brave, the shire

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could...

Hanif Kureishi

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could...

Hanif Kureishi

Tags: fake friends, fake people, generosity, money, power
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