#selected stories

[derangedrhythms]

I never knew it could get so dark. I’ve never known a dark that was as dark as this.

Alice Munro, Selected Stories; from ‘The Progress of Love’

[virtuouslibertines69]

“He led her out over the field where the whispering flowers rose in pale blue waves to her knees and she felt their soft petals against her bare flesh and she lay down among them and stretched her arms through them and pressed her lips against them and felt them all about her, accepting her and embracing her, and a kind of drunkeness possessed her.” - Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “The Field of Blue Children,”

Art by Tanya Shatseva

[beljar]

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, 1962

[quotessentially]

From Alice Munro’s Selected Stories

[klainesheilen]

18.01.2023

There is something about being a barista in a small coffee shop and used books

[quotespile]

I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide — sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

Alice Munro, Selected Stories

[litsnaps]

[watchoutforintellect]

Kate Chopin, from “The Awakening” featured in The Awakening & Selected Stories