Glitter > Glitter's Quotes

“I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.”
― Anais Nin

“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”
― Anais Nin, A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3

“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.”
― Anais Nin, A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Œuvres complètes

“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“You are the music while the music lasts.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
"She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me.
"Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

“I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories