November 2009
“Well, they gave me medication. So I feel how I imagine people of average...”
– Bones
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
“Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.”
– Simon and Garfunkel
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed...”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems)
“People who claim they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us....”
– Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)
“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all...”
– Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago)
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
– Franz Kafka (via lastchatwithphontaine)
“There’s a look of mischief in his eyes. ‘Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant...”
– Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992) - Peter Høeg (via frost-at-midnight)
“Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the...”
– Susan Sontag (via nihilnoetia)
Whisper, Talk, Scream →
“If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.”
– Sy Rosen, on Northern Exposure (via leprintemps)
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can...”
– Clifton Fadiman
November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early, And dawn coming late, And ice in the bucket And frost by the gate. The fires burn And the kettles sing, And earth sinks to rest Until next spring.
Clyde Watson
“Authenticity is invaluable. Originality is non-existent.”
– Jim Jarmusch (via corners)
“But I have no doubt,
One day the sun will come out”
– Lovers in Japan - Coldplay
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with...”
– T.S. Eliot (via samsaramotel, crashinglybeautiful) (via frost-at-midnight)
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state...”
– Daphne du Maurier
“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so...”
– Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms)
“The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the...”
– Henry Miller
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on...”
– Lydia Maria Child
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than...”
– Boris Pasternak
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