This entry is really just an olla podrida of quotes from books I adore and images I savor.
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I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified. And so I ran after him.
-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“When we got up to go to my bed-sized bedroom I said that we could either sleep on dirty sheets or strip the bed to the bare mattress and pretend I was a crack whore.
He said, “Crack whore,” and I thought I’d never heard anything so romantic.”
-The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank
*Actually, I don’t adore this book, but I think the author has a lot of humor in her writing.
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The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
-Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
-Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
I really like this book (and it is so quotable like most of Palahniuk’s works), but I can’t help associating it with spoiled NYU hipsterdom, which so bores and irritates me.
