#literature quotations

Fashion is a strange disease. You wear dark glsses so you can see people but the people can’t see you. They can’t see into your eyes. So people who wear dark glasses on sunless days must be guilty about something. Popstars wear them all the time. It’s obvious what they’re guilty about. Their music.

Shane Connaughton - “Watery Lanes”

Most of the benches bore the names of benefactors - in memory of Mrs. Ruth Klein or whatever - but my mother’s bench, the Rendezvous Point, alone of all the benches in that part of the park had been given by its anonymous donor a more mysterious and welcoming message: EVERYTHING OF POSSIBILITY.

Donna Tartt - “The Goldfinch”