January 2012
“I can listen no longer in silence. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half...”
– Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
– T.S. Eliot
“It’s silly, to worry because you can’t do something you simply can’t do. That’s...”
– Eilonwy, The Book of Three
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“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe a fish because I love...”
– Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block
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“I don’t know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body
“You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel,...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“[Suddenly I had the feeling that everything was as it should be and nothing...”
– Hanif Kureishi, from Intimacy
“[She had gathered in all the good things of this world, and all the bitterness,...”
– Irène Némirovsky, from All Our Worldly Goods
At Last - Etta James
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“The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– -Isak Dinesen
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
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“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit”
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“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose,...”
– Lorrie Moore (via Confuzzzled)