Peter > Peter's Quotes

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.”
― James Ellroy

“The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.”
― Elvis Costello

“Desire has no history...”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

“I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.”
― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”
― Johnathan Safran Foer

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.”
― William Shakespeare