L > L's Quotes

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Some ineffable piece of me had gone, rewritten by her touch, and what had been stolen was patched by a piece of her, some bit of her heart I had unknowingly taken with me.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“And then: 'Here comes your baby. Sois sage. Sois chic.' He moved slightly away and began talking to the boy next to him. And here my baby came indeed, through all that sunlight, his face flushed and his hair flying, his eyes, unbelievably, like morning stars.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room