Brandon Shire > Brandon's Quotes

“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”
― S. Morgenstern, The Silent Gondoliers

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
― Voltaire

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

“If time and space are curved where do all the straight people come from?”
― RJ Scott, Back Home

“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Henry David

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“I just want mind-boggling sex tonight, but I don’t think you can beat my vibrator.”
― Anna Bayes, Snug Fit