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  • #1
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #2
    William Wordsworth
    “Nature never did betray
    The heart that loved her.”
    William Wordsworth

  • #3
    Percival Everett
    “Linda Mallory is the postmodern fuck.”
    Percival Everett, Erasure

  • #4
    William Faulkner
    “Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #5
    William Faulkner
    “Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #6
    William Faulkner
    “Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #7
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Is this thing safe?"
    "Safe as life," Gansey replied.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys."

    Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

  • #11
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.

    Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.

    She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #15
    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #16
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #17
    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #18
    Donna Tartt
    “It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #19
    James Joyce
    “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #20
    James Joyce
    “Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners
    tags: food

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
    tags: love

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #25
    Philippe Besson
    “(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
    Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

  • #26
    Philippe Besson
    “I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost. There are some around me who can sense it; the adults repeat it constantly but I don't listen. Their words roll over me but don't stick. Like water off the feathers of a duck's back. I'm an idiot. An easygoing idiot.”
    Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

  • #27
    Philippe Besson
    “In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
    Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
    tags: love

  • #28
    Cristina Rivera Garza
    “You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality.”
    Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

  • #29
    Cristina Rivera Garza
    Words finally like something touched and felt, words like inevitable material.
    Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

  • #30
    Mona Awad
    “But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
    Mona Awad, Bunny



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