Some Quotes & Other Stuff

a collections of quotes, songs and art

[somequotesandotherstuff]

"[...] I don't want to be married for the sake of being married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with."

— Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"

[somequotesandotherstuff]

"He was another knife, I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for."

— Madeline Miller, "Circe"

[thequotehaven]

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

[soracities]

It was her instinct to avoid thinking, to avoid it, to save herself.

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

[thequotehaven]

Perhaps the most corrosive aspect of a lonely life is not the time spent alone, but the time spent in a crowd, feeling left out.

Emilie Pine, Notes to Self

[thequotehaven]

In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

[thequotehaven]

(…) humour is the soul’s last line of defence, and as long as we’re laughing we’re alive,

Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

[thequotehaven]

I am so happy. I am so scared. The two, it turns out, can walk together, hand in hand.

V.E. Schwab, Gallant

[lifeinpoetry]

Inside my head, the war is everywhere.

— Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother

[soracities]

Night, and everything so quiet, as if there were no one, not even myself.

John Banville, The Sea

[soracities]

There was nothing for her anywhere, but this black disintegration. Yet, within all the great attack of disintegration upon her, she remained herself. It was the terrible core of all her suffering, that she was always herself. Never could she escape that.

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow 

[soracities]

“Let us not diminish her power, let her words live the way she meant them – But keep her human, keep her contradictions.”

— Sujata Bhatt, from “Viriditas: Hildegaard and Jesus”, Poppies in Translation

[thequotehaven]

The body was the only reality. I hurt, therefore I am.

Janet Fitch, White Oleander

[weltenwellen]

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

[fandom-paloza]

Brasti jumped to his feet. “I have an idea.”

No good has ever come from those four words coming out of that particular mouth.

Tyrant’s Throne- The Greatcoats book 4 by Sebastien de Castell

[fandom-paloza]

“Your doing it again”, Falcio, Kest said quietly. “What’s that?” “Talking when you should be fighting.”

Kest and Falcio- Greatcoats 

[antigonick]

I think, “At least in my dreams we’ll be able to meet …” Moving my pillow this way and that on the bed—

Izumi Shikibu, excerpt of “I Think—”, trans. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani in The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan