Dr. Doomstoevsky

betraying myself for nothing • Levi • 25

[mutantoftomorrow]

'Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!'

- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[mutantoftomorrow]

'It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.'

- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[mutantoftomorrow]

'God should be your comfort, but you have made comfort your god.'

- Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

[mutantoftomorrow]

[mutantoftomorrow]

'It is ugliness itself that becomes, in the end, the goal of his lechery; beauty has long since grown too weak a stimulant.'

- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

[mutantoftomorrow]

'Was it the most crude truth that all the endless talks which had seemed to her, before they were married, the very medium of love itself, had never been to him more than a preliminary?'

- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

[mutantoftomorrow]

I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had prayed as heathens mutter charms when I was in extremity; but now I prayed indeed, pleasing steadfastly and sanely, face to face with the darkness of God.

- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

[mutantoftomorrow]

Reality is actually one thing and language something else.

- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

[mutantoftomorrow]

I don't want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.

- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

[mutantoftomorrow]

He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

Although her existence was necessary to Shevek her actual presence could be a distraction.

-Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed

[mutantoftomorrow]

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

- Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed

[mutantoftomorrow]

Placing his hands behind his head, he felt himself returning to earth after having been suspended for an indeterminate length of time between delusion and enlightenment.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

Perhaps the simplest way to put it is that I have a sort of crush on you." He paused for a moment, laughed and went on: "Yes, it's a matter of infatuation, a case of one man being attracted to another." Geki seemed to feel this was sufficient explanation, but Musashi was more mystified than ever.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

For several days now he had watched the play of light on her body -- at night, the flickering glow of a lamp; in the daytime, the warm rays of the sun. Seeing her skin glisten with perspiration, he'd thought of the lotus blossom.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

Nobody can create a worthwhile life for you but you yourself.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

This sword, he reflected, would have to be his mother, his father, his brothers and sisters.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi