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Denise sauntered over to the front door and glared up at Gus, who was blocking her exit. “Move out of the way, fudgecock. I got shit to do today.”
“A waitress had come out of nowhere. “What can I get you?”
I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. “Uh... five... beers?”
“Five beers.”
“Yup!”
“Any particular kind?”
“…good ones?”
“Can I see your ID?”
“Goddammit.” I handed it over.”
―
I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. “Uh... five... beers?”
“Five beers.”
“Yup!”
“Any particular kind?”
“…good ones?”
“Can I see your ID?”
“Goddammit.” I handed it over.”
―
“(Jude) had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor—which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of mind. Yet he perceived with despondency that, taken all round, he was a man of too many passions to make a good clergyman; the utmost he could hope for was that in a life of constant internal warfare between flesh and spirit the former might not always be victorious.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“She was happy, in a bubble, and the only reason to pop it was on the grounds that bubbles were not real life. But bubbles made life tolerable, and the trick was to blow as many as possible. There were new-baby bubbles, and honeymoon bubbles, and success-at-work bubbles, and new-friends bubbles, and great-holiday bubbles, and even tiny TV-series bubbles, dinner bubbles, party bubbles. They all burst without intervention, and then it was a matter of getting through to the next one. Life hadn’t been fizzy for a while. It had been hard.”
― Just Like You
― Just Like You
“It was incredible that nature (the blue of the sky was clear like a child's heart) should be so indifferent when men were writhing in agony and going to their death in fear.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“Philosophers are composed of flesh and blood as well as other human creatures; and however sublimated and refined the theory of these may be, a little practical frailty is as incident to them as to other mortals. It is, indeed, in theory only, and not in practice, as we have before hinted, that consists the difference: for though such great beings think much better and more wisely, they always act exactly like other men. They know very well how to subdue all appetites and passions, and to despise both pain and pleasure; and this knowledge affords much delightful contemplation, and is easily acquired; but the practice would be vexatious and troublesome; and, therefore, the same wisdom which teaches them to know this, teaches them to avoid carrying it into execution.”
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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