“She was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things,”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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