Emma > Recent Status Updates

“after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure, our friend applied himself to the pleasant task of Pninizing his new quarters.”

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed; and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

His face had the appearance of damp yellow cheese

I’ve been abroad myself, I’ve seen the world, used to parley-vous a little.

Very well, Doctor Grave-face, I will declare in future that I dote on skeletons and body-snatchers and bits of things in phials and quarrels with everybody that end in your dying miserably.

“I think most writers are crazy ‘cause they sit in their rooms all the time and scribble down stuff no one wants to read and they don’t fuck.”

“Silence fell on the table like a bad simile.”

give us room even to let a fart God or do the least thing better yes hold them like that a bit on my side piano quietly sweeeee there’s that train

Open thy mouth and put thy foot in it.

She kicked the bucket. (Tears of molten butter fall from his eyes into the scone.)

Dr. Bloom is bisexually abnormal he has recently escaped from Dr. Eustace’s private asylum for demented gentlemen

(A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward)

Bless me, I’m all of a wibblywobbly.

(hoik! phthook!)

As said before he ate with relish the inner organs, nutty gizzards

As you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit

I think this is actually too gruesome for me to get through???

Some of my goodreads updates are just veiled cries for help

this is my new favorite book