Any lady.
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Next sentence is: "Any well-conected pricess whom he thinks might give him a son.
(Yes it is about Henry VIII's time)
Any lady.
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Next sentence is: "Any well-conected pricess whom he thinks might give him a son.
(Yes it is about Henry VIII's time)
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
"As I run I tell myself to think of a river."
From What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
"Last month, much to Langdon's embarrasment, Boston Magazine had listed him as one of that city's top ten most intriguing people - a dubious honor that made him the brunt of endless ribbing by his Harvard colleagues."
From The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
More comfortable down below in that thick stew pouring into the Gare St Lazare, the whores in the doorways, seltzer bottles on every table; a thick tide of semen flooding the gutters.
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
Deeply moved with such a generous gift, which included a large shot pouch and finely wrought brass powder flask, Simon promptly-and with Butlers approval-named the weapon Jacob, feeling that in times to come it would stand by him as the miller himself had done.
Allan Eckart, the Frontiersmen
Whew, it just had to be that sentence!
He prayed best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"She had this thing where guys would propose to her all the time, which I never understood."
My Horizontal Life: A Collection Of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
From Koko by Peter Straub
"Then Poole heard a faint click and rustle, as of some object being pulled from a casing."
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Angelic Host
Glory to God in the highest,
Heaven and earth do both Him praise,
Who with one Word brought all things into being
And continues to uphold them with His gaze.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
Blog
"When I asked if I could just ride out to the rivermouth with Loonie he shook his head."
Breath by Tim Winton
Aubrey was kneeling down, holding one of the baby's legs.
Marcos sank into a deep depression that lasted two or three days, at the end of which he announced that he would never marry and that he was embarking on a trip around the world.
-The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
"Oh the clever
Things I should say to you
They got stuck somewhere
Stuck between me and you"
The headlines were strangely frightening, with an inhuman cheerfulness and power: [...]
(can't be bothered writing it all, too long )
Victor Pelevin, "Omon Ra", trans. by Andrew Bloomfield.
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
This is from Lecturas Simplificadas: El Sombrero de Tres Picos:
Garduña se muestra complaciente con el Corregidor. (Verdadero o Falso)
"I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine." -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul" -Franz Kafka