November 2011
25 posts
What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out...
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye
He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind...
– Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
Human relationships didn’t work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing,...
– Charles Bukowski, Women
For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from that sexual tension...
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Math class was x’s and y’s and I felt trapped inside a repeating dream, staring...
– Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
But we Romans are rich. We’ve got a lot of gods. We’ve got a god for...
– History of the World: Part I, 1981
He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and...
– Neil Gaiman, Stardust
…the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket…
– Stephen King, The Gunslinger
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work;...
– George Orwell, Animal Farm
I will love you no matter how many mistakes I make when trying to reduce...
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of...
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried