Allusions Quotes

“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There's no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.”
― Maria Popova

“It’s like the North Pole had a love child with Hogwarts! I want to live here forever!”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in want of a matching strand of DNA.”
― Daryl Gregory, Afterparty

“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked out of the Garden.”
― Michael Walterich, Gently Down

“. . . his fingers were half an inch longer than the fingers of most men his height. Had he been a pianist, Andrey could easily have straddled a twelfth. Had he been a puppeteer, he could have performed the sword fight between Macbeth and Macduff as all three witches looked on.”
― Towles, Amor

“Are you sure it’s not your Pride and Prejudice getting in the way of your Sense and Sensibility?' she asked. 'I see what you did there,' I said, 'and there is no Persuasion that will make me give Jamie another chance. He’s not who I thought he was, and I can’t forgive that.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Royal Valentine