Jennifer (formerly Eccentric Muse)

“...that was the only function of music, to convey either nostalgia or longing, the same emotion in different tenses.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Americans he found to be so outwardly happy all the time and superficially positive. To be indiscriminately happy seemed to him as much of a curse as to be indiscriminately sad.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“Basil Ransom had got up just as Mrs. Luna made this last declaration; for a young lady had glided into the room, who stopped short as it fell upon her ears. She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips--it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.”
― Henry James, The Bostonians

“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart