Selene Silver > Selene's Quotes

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City