"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"there are some things in life a person just cant know"
— Sarah Weeks (So B. It)

"His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together-a rocky beach strewn with driftwood trees, a garage made of plastic sheds, warm sodas in a paper bag, a tiny room with one too-small love seat. The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter. It felt like a sort of homesickness, this longing for the place and person who had sheltered me through my darkest night."
— Stephenie Meyer

"YOu know your in love when you cant fall asleep because reality is finally better then your dreams!"
— dr. suess

"The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

"Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog !
Grrrr !!!
-Mr. Boffin"
— Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend)

"“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.”"
— Stephen Wright

"I'm so terrified of no one else but me.
I'm here all the time, and I won't go away.
"
— Matchbox 20 "Long Day"

""most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.""
— Pythagoras

"It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Words could never express the way I feel about this world, a world that needs no introductions because we already know. We know too much we hate for fun it's getting out of hand, hands that never seem to find each other."
— A Beautiful Silence

"INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.


Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the nebeneinander ineluctably. I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side. Tap with it: they do. My two feet in his boots are at the end of his legs, nebeneinander. Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los Demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them a'.

Won't you come to Sandymount,
Madeline the mare?

Rhythm begins, you see. I hear. A catalectic tetrameter of iambs marching. No, agallop: deline the mare.

Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.

See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)

" What Jessica said—hair much shorter, wearing a darker mouth of different outline, harder lipstick, her typewriter banking in a phalanx of letters between them—was: "We're going to be married. We're trying very hard to have a baby."
All at once there is nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger. "I don't care. Have his baby. I'll love you both—just come with me Jess, please... I need you...."
She flips a red lever on her intercom. Far away a buzzer goes off. "Security." Her voice is perfectly hard, the word still clap-echoing in the air as in through the screen door of the Quonset office wth a smell of tide flats come the coppers, looking grim. Security. Her magic word, her spell against demons."
— Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
— William Blake - Auguries of Innocence