Daily Literary Quotes

a literary quote every day. main blog: @justiceforophelia

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“…and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered…”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Fellowship of the Ring (via luthienne)

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She was lost in her longing to understand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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Do I dare / Disturb the universe?

T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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How wild it was, to let it be.

Cheryl Strayed, Wild

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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison, Beloved

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In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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At the still point, there the dance is

T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Allen Ginsburg, America

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.

W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One"

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A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice