February 2012
4 posts
“How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
December 2011
4 posts
“I like people too much or not at all.”
– Sylvia Plath (via quitexinfamous)
“Visibility is a trap…; it summons surveillance and the law; it provokes...”
– peggy phelan (1993) unmarked (via noteasybeingred)
“I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions....”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via girlwithoutwings)
November 2011
9 posts
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live… We look for the sermon in the...”
– Joan Didion The White Album (via spindlefibers)
“She is worried about how the language she dreams in, given to her at birth, is...”
– Toni Morrison (via restoried)
“My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
– “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer
(via anditslove)
October 2011
2 posts
“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
– Margaret Atwood
(via bookoasis)
September 2011
11 posts
3 tags
“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its...”
– Toni Morrison (via restoried)
“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
– Bret Easton Ellis (via quitexinfamous)
3 tags
“When I was a little girl the heads of my paper dolls came off, and it was a long...”
– Sula by Toni Morrison
1 tag
5 tags
“Telling the truth, she said, was a luxury we could not afford and so lying...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
(thetitles)
5 tags
1 tag
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you...”
– Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (via thechocolatebrigade)
August 2011
14 posts
3 tags
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost...”
– Toni Morrison (via thatjulynight)
“Particularly in issues around erotica and sexual violence, people want to deny...”
– bell hooks
3 tags
“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve...”
– E.B. White - Charlotte’s Web
6 tags
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via dancingmeatloaf)
“This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via thisislesliee)
“I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Considerations by the Way” (berrynice)
July 2011
5 posts
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not...”
– Toni Morrison
June 2011
16 posts
