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  • #1
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #2
    William Faulkner
    “Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #3
    William Faulkner
    “Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #4
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “1lb beefstak, with
    1pt bitter beer
    every 6 hours.
    1 ten-mile walk every morning.
    1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
    And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.”
    Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

  • #5
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.”
    Jerome K.

  • #6
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.”
    Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: humor

  • #7
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #8
    Emily Brontë
    “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #9
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #10
    Emily Brontë
    “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #11
    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #12
    Emily Brontë
    “I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #13
    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    “I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
    Baz Luhrmann

  • #16
    Françoise Sagan
    “I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
    Françoise Sagan
    tags: love

  • #17
    Erich Maria Remarque
    “To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.”
    Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

  • #18
    Erich Maria Remarque
    “That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”
    Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

  • #19
    Elif Shafak
    “You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.”
    Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

  • #20
    Elif Shafak
    “Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.”
    Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.

    In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed.

    In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.

    In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.

    In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.

    And those who are alone at this moment, need never be frightened by the words of the devil: ‘You’re wasting your time.’

    Or by the chief demon’s even more potent words: ‘No one cares about you.’

    The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.

    And when we achieve that harmony, we receive more than we asked for.”
    Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”
    Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
    Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

    “Aren’t you tired of waiting?”

    “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”
    Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

  • #25
    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #26
    Tennessee Williams
    “I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #27
    Tennessee Williams
    “He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about mouth and eyes and moving hands. He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

    "Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

  • #29
    John Green
    “I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus?”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #30
    Walter de la Mare
    “Away

    There is no sorrow
    Time heals never;
    No loss, betrayal,
    Beyond repair.
    Balm for the soul, then,
    Though grave shall sever
    Lover from loved
    And all they share.
    See the sweet sun shines
    The shower is over;
    Flowers preen their beauty,
    The day how fair!
    Brood not too closely
    On love, on duty;
    Friends long forgotten
    May wait you where
    Life with death
    Brings all to an issue;
    None will long mourn for you,
    Pray for you, miss you,
    Your place left vacant,
    You not there.”
    Walter de la Mare



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