“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."
- Phil Ochs
"‘What of art?’
‘It is a malady.’
‘Love?’
‘An illusion.’
‘Religion?’
‘A fashionable substitute for belief.’
‘You are a sceptic.’
‘Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith.’
‘What are you?’
‘To define is to limit.’"
Tagged #Oscar Wilde #The Picture of Dorian Gray #quote #quotes #lit #literature #love #art #religion Posted on 22 May, 2013Reblogged from larmoyante
"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."
Tagged #F. Scott Fitzgerald #Magnetism #lit #literature #quote #quotes #April #love Posted on 14 May, 2013Reblogged from hoodoothatvoodoo Source theotherway
"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’"
Tagged #Virginia Woolf #The Waves #star #stars #consume #quote #quotes #lit #literature Posted on 14 May, 2013Reblogged from larmoyante
"One night the mirror people invaded the earth. Their power was great, but at the end of bloody warfare the magic arts of the Yellow Emperor prevailed. He repulsed the invaders, imprisoned them in their mirrors, and forced on them the task of repeating, as though in a kind of dream, all the actions of men."
Tagged #Jorge Luis Borges #Fauna of Mirrors #The Book of Imaginary Beings #lit #literature #mirror Posted on 14 May, 2013Reblogged from rclinkdump Source contextfreeborges
"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."
Tagged #Jeanette Winterson #quote #quotes #Lighthousekeeping #lit #literature #night #heart #wild #tame Posted on 13 May, 2013Reblogged from vermeers Source lostinthesounds
"It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more real than the body."
Tagged #Tomas Tranströmer #After a Death #Tomas Transtromer #lit #literature #poetry #poem #quote #quotes #heart #body #shadow Posted on 11 May, 2013Reblogged from larmoyante
"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
Tagged #Emily Bronte #Wuthering Heights #life #dreams #dream #ideas #wine #water #lit #literature #quote #quotes Posted on 10 May, 2013Reblogged from hoodoothatvoodoo Source hollyreads
"Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious."
Tagged #night #walking #Cornelia Funke #Inkheart #lit #literature #mystery #silence Posted on 6 May, 2013Reblogged from seabois
"She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
Tagged #J.D. Salinger #A Girl I Knew #quote #quotes #lit #literature #balcony #universe #feminine pronoun Posted on 18 April, 2013Reblogged from larmoyante
"She told him in a dozen ways, of which the best was without words, how she had missed him. Her emotion reassured him, promised his anxious heart that everything would be all right."
Tagged #F. Scott Fitzgerald #The Sensible Thing #lit #literature #quote #quotes #intimacy #intimate #missing someone Posted on 17 April, 2013Reblogged from eeote Source fitzgeraldquotes
"It’s hard to remember the days before you. I don’t even know if there were any."
Tagged #David Guterson #Snow Falling on Cedars #quote #quotes #lit #intimacy #intimate Posted on 17 April, 2013Reblogged from delilahlily
"It’s always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope."
Tagged #Michael Chabon #Wonder Boys #lit #quote #quotes #denial #hope Posted on 16 April, 2013Reblogged from larmoyante
"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."
Tagged #David Foster Wallace #quote #quotes #words #The Pale King #lit #literature Posted on 14 April, 2013Reblogged from retrojapan Source nequiquam
"I felt that I was not, never had been, and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me."
Tagged #John Knowles #A Separate Peace #quote #quotes #lit #literature Posted on 7 April, 2013Reblogged from loyalorderofthebassethounds
"I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them."
Tagged #Amy Tan #Saving Fish From Drowning #quote #quotes #lit #literature #feelings Posted on 7 April, 2013Reblogged from retrojapan Source cartographe
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