“They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.”
― Ethan Frome
― Ethan Frome
“His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
“Nobody who's ever gotten sufficiently addictively enslaved by a Substance to need to quit the Substance and has successfully quit it for a while and been straight and but then has for whatever reason gone back and picked up the Substance again has ever reported being glad that they did it, used the Substance again and gotten re-enslaved; not ever.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
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