#book quotations
it’s so frustrating knowing how terrible a person actually is,but everyone loves them just because they put on a good show
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” - Sylvia Plath
Women in the Literary Scene.
Book aesthetic: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
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Excerpts from the Exeter Book:
“The Seafarer”
“The Wife’s Lament”
“The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.”
― Sui Ishida.
“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
Back to reading tarot cards, a book on occultism, candles, and quiet nights.
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“Whoever you were, there was a chance that you would end up wanting to run away from a job you had believed in, that you would stray from the path you were on.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W.H Auden
people aren’t meant to float through the air. unless we know the weight of our bodies, unless we feel the force of gravity, we’ll forget what we are, we’ll lose ourselves without even noticing.
Madeleine Thien - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book - that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.
The Sellout , Paul Beatty
“Anthony responded instantly; the warmth of Kate’s touch flooded him, seeping through his body until it caressed his very soul. And in that moment he realized that this was about more than love. This woman made him a better person.”
- TVWLM, pg. 411
“All that’s gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost: the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” -J.R.R Tolkien
that quote has made me think a lot. the little things pass too fast. try to enjoy them.
I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (…) I want, I think, to be omniscient
Sylvia Plath
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Ernest Hemingway,from A Farewell to Arms
“The trust or confidence that can be established between writer and reader is real, though entirely mental; on both sides it consists in the willingness to animate, to project one’s own thinking and feeling into a harmony with a not-yet-existent reader or a not-present and perhaps long-dead writer. It is a miraculous and entirely symbolical transubstantiation.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home, 1985
