September 2011
2 posts
5 tags
2 tags
“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via slekes)
August 2011
9 posts
1 tag
“I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel...”
– Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell (via juneandafter)
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via thisismyhappyface)
July 2011
5 posts
“No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else’s island when...”
– Tove Jansson
“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even...”
– Tove Jansson, Moominpapa at Sea. (via @whichdreamedit)
June 2011
4 posts
“Ours is a highly individualised culture, with a great faith in the work of art...”
– Angela Carter; quotes in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. [emphasis on ‘I’.]
“So here is my profound thought for the day: this is the first time I have met...”
– Muriel Barbary, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children...”
– Muriel Barbary, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Trans. Alison Anderson.
May 2011
3 posts
“Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing...”
– Marianne, Sense and Sensibility; Jane Austen
“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by...”
– Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility.
April 2011
10 posts
“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“Do I even know if I feel, if I think, if I exist? I know only that there’s...”
– Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Disquiet
“Live your life. Don’t be lived by it. Right or wrong, happy or sad, be your own...”
– Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Disquiet
“You read to hear someone express feelings that you thought only you felt....”
– Tan Hwee Hwee, Mammon Inc.
“When you’re young, you think it’s going to be solved by love. But it...”
– Anonymous.
March 2011
8 posts
“Yuichi was fast asleep on the sofa. From the smile on his face he seemed pleased...”
– Yoshimoto Banana, Kitchen. Trans. Megan Backus.
February 2011
3 posts
“Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
January 2011
2 posts
“I’m thirty-two years old…which means I’ve been reading for...”
– Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built. (Found in A Book Addict’s Treasury by Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy.)
“Arrietty’s eyes grew big. ‘Oh, no-’ she began. It shocked her...”
– Mary Norton; The Borrowers.
November 2010
9 posts
“The world’s beauty is in soap bubbles, little specks of dust, galaxy shards,...”
– Ophelia Blooming (via whichdreamedit)
