“And I won’t be showing you any mercy if you lay a finger on my wife.”
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”
― A History of Western Philosophy
― A History of Western Philosophy
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Your schooling is your voice, child. It will be speaking for you even if you didn’t open your mouth to talk. It will be speaking till the day God is calling you come.” That day, I tell myself that even if I am not getting anything in this life, I will go to school. I will finish my primary and secondary and university schooling and become teacher because I don’t just want to be having any kind voice . . . I want a louding voice.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
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