fuck yeah, literary quotes

for the literary fans out there on tumblr.

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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

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Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”

The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway

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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg

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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

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She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.

The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt

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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg

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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.

Possession, A.S. Byatt

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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell