November 2011
25 posts
October 2011
24 posts
I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the...
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
For the rest of the time Maria was in Las Vegas she wore dark glasses. She did...
– Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
‘I wish I could love,’ cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and...
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain...
– Chris Cleave, The Other Hand
Delicious oranges will be grown in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
– Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” 1900
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty...
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited 1945
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the...
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the...
– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting