Sandra Cisneros, “Eleven”
Tag: quotes
“I like simple things… books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
— Daphne du Maurier
Beau Taplin, The Wild Heart
art by night-rooms
“Any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialized buyer.”
— Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech. (via halcynth)
“Mr Hall, have you heard what I was saying?”
“I hear everything you say,” said Maurice thoughtfully, and continued in exactly the same tone: “Scudder, why do you think it’s ‘natural’ to care both for women and men? You wrote so in your letter. It isn’t natural for me. I have really got to think that ‘natural’ only means oneself.”
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
“Scratch my heart to find / The roots of last year’s roses in my breast;”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “Sonnets,”
(via loveage-moondream)
“The really odd thing about human sex, though, was the way it went on even when people were fully clothed and sitting on opposite sides of the fire.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
“You don’t happen to know whether he has anyone in view matrimonially, do you?”
“ ‘Fraid I don’t… saw him kissing two girls at once on my arrival if that’s any help.”
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
Green Violin Bow 