--J.D. Salinger, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason...
--J.D. Salinger, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
--Michael Cunningham, The Hours How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. --Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie What humanity was about to lose, though, except for one tiny colony on Santa Rosalia, was what the trackless sea could never lose, so long as it was made of water, the ability to heal itself. --Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. --J.D.Salinger, Franny and Zooey I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. --Arthur Miller, Death Of A Salesman Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. --Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.
--Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain. --Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. --George Orwell, 1984 I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. --Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all. --Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes. --Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse. --J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye |
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