“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”
― Damned
― Damned
“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”
― Warm Bodies
― Warm Bodies
“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves? A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing. To open a mouth, in speech, is to leave only the bones, which remain untold.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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