

“You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― White Fang
― White Fang

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

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