“( In war) you determine who will die anyway, and you move to those you can save. You want to stand over the dead and cry, but that helps no one. That’s a tourist’s sensibility.”
― The Lotus Eaters
― The Lotus Eaters
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“She invaded his heart, first in pictures, and then later through the casual touch of her hand, the smell of her hair, and finally the weight of her pain in his arms.”
― The Lotus Eaters
― The Lotus Eaters
“They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars”
― Ethan Frome
― Ethan Frome
“I can’t share your love of God. But I do understand your need to give your life to him. Each of us has within us something that just won’t be denied. Something to which we are driven even though it makes us scream aloud to die.”
― The Thorn Birds
― The Thorn Birds
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