Emily

“Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
― Oscar Wilde

“This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“The death of God left the angels in a strange position.”
― Donald Barthelme