#quotes lit

[howifeltabouthim]

'I minded many other things at the time: but what I still mind most is the curtain coming down so suddenly, leaving it all unfinished and meaningless. If there had just been a closing phrase, however painful — well, I could have borne it better. A word could have been enough, the one word 'darling' recognizing what we had been to each other, summing it all up!'

L. P. Hartley, from The Hireling

[pav-anne]

"A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing"

- Susan Sontag

[unusualfurbyhideout]

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune

[temporaryhomeforamisguidedt-blog]

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

[madnessinimagination]

If only you would notice What I'm dying to reveal The dreams I can't declare The needs I can't deny You'd understand them all If only you would try All my secrets, you would learn them All my longings, you’d return them Then the silence would be broken Not a word would need be spoken.

Unknown

[youaresafe-child]

Beli would talk about how trapped they all felt. It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Diaz