Sign in with Facebook
5 books
—
1 voter
to-read
(444)
currently-reading (7)
read (279)
did-not-finish (0)
on-hold (12)
year-in-books (1)
romance (94)
childhood (65)
fantasy (61)
currently-reading (7)
read (279)
did-not-finish (0)
on-hold (12)
year-in-books (1)
romance (94)
childhood (65)
fantasy (61)
general-fiction
(26)
bbe (25)
the-internet-made-me-read-it (24)
tales-from-north-america (18)
classic-literature (16)
essays (15)
memoirs (15)
modern-classics (15)
travel (15)
bbe (25)
the-internet-made-me-read-it (24)
tales-from-north-america (18)
classic-literature (16)
essays (15)
memoirs (15)
modern-classics (15)
travel (15)
“As a rule things happened to Dot. She was not weak, because there was nothing in her to tell her she was being weak. She was not strong because she never knew that some of the things she did were brave. She neither defined nor conformed nor compromised.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Gloria had lulled Anthony's mind to sleep. She, who seemed of all women the wisest and the finest, hung like a brilliant curtain across his doorways, shutting out the light of the sun. In those first few years what he believed bore invariably the stamp of Gloria; he saw the sun always through the pattern of the curtain.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“There was, first of all, the sense of waste, always dormant in his heart, now awakened by the circumstances of his position. In his moments of insecurity he was haunted by the suggestion that life might be, after all, significant.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“In a moment he would call Tana and they would pour into themselves a gay and delicate poison which would restore them momentarily to the pleasurable excitement of childhood, when every face in a crowd had carried its suggestion of splendid and significant transactions taking place somewhere to some magnificent and illimitable purpose...Life was no more than this summer afternoon; a faint wind stirring the lace collar of Gloria's dress, the slow baking drowsiness of the veranda...Intolerably unmoved they all seemed, removed from any romantic imminency of action. Even Gloria's beauty needed wild emotions, needed poignancy, needed death...”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“The - pan-ic - " he began but got no further, for Gloria's hand swung around swiftly and caught him in the cheek. At this he all at once let go of her, and she fell to the floor, her shoulder hitting the table a glancing blow in transit...
Then the room seemed full of men and smoke. There was Tana in his white coat reeling about supported by Maury. Into his flute he was blowing a weird blend of sound that was known, cried Anthony, as the Japanese train song. Joe Hull had found a box of candles and was juggling them, yelling "One down!" every time he missed, and Dick was dancing by himself in a fascinated whirl around and about the room. It appeared to her that everything in the room was staggering in a grotesque fourth-dimensional gyrations through intersecting planes of hazy blue.
Outside the storm had come up amazingly - the lulls within were filled with the scrape of the tall bushes against the house and the roaring of the rain on the tin roof of the kitchen.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
Then the room seemed full of men and smoke. There was Tana in his white coat reeling about supported by Maury. Into his flute he was blowing a weird blend of sound that was known, cried Anthony, as the Japanese train song. Joe Hull had found a box of candles and was juggling them, yelling "One down!" every time he missed, and Dick was dancing by himself in a fascinated whirl around and about the room. It appeared to her that everything in the room was staggering in a grotesque fourth-dimensional gyrations through intersecting planes of hazy blue.
Outside the storm had come up amazingly - the lulls within were filled with the scrape of the tall bushes against the house and the roaring of the rain on the tin roof of the kitchen.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
Constant Reader
— 6024 members
— last activity 9 hours, 26 min ago
A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more
THE Group for Authors!
— 13031 members
— last activity May 15, 2026 03:55AM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
Ruby Grace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruby Grace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
60,940 books
|
48 friends
8,138 books
|
5,001 friends
701 books
|
7 friends
4,288 books
|
190 friends
851 books
|
139 friends
1,375 books
|
3,319 friends
546 books
|
1,054 friends
69 books
|
8 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ruby Grace
Lists liked by Ruby Grace
