January 2012
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In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees,...
– Invitation to a Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov
December 2011
5 posts
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Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in...
– The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
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November 2011
11 posts
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The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places....
– A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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‘Mr. Rearden,’ said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, ‘if you saw Atlas, the...
– Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
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He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark...
– One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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For we die every day; oblivion thrives
Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe...
– Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
October 2011
19 posts
And the rest is rust and stardust.
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via spindling)
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I wasn’t born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
no, I was...
– Sawdust and Diamonds, Joanna Newsom
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A women who since childhood had been counting her heartbeats and had run out of...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via neededtobe)
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but I’m starving and freezing in my measly old bed!
then I’ll crawl...
– Only Skin, Joanna Newsom
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I’ve got this theory. It’s called the Reinvention Theory. This is...
– The Tracey Fragments, Maureen Medved
September 2011
6 posts
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium,...
– Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49
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There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can...
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
August 2011
4 posts