"So it goes." - Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
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"So it goes." - Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep ...
-- from The Tempest (Act IV, Scene 1)
by William Shakespeare
'Do you know what a ****ing loser you are?' He starts nodding helplessly and I pull out a long, think knife, with a serrated edge and, being very careful not to kill him, push maybe half an inch of the blade into his right eye, flicking the hand up, instantly popping the retina.
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
We cannot predict consequences of great decisions.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
"Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches."
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Kreutzer Sonata
You might not want to read this if you intend on reading it...I might spoil it.
"When people say that they do not remember what they do in a fit of fury, they talk nonsense. It is false. I remember everything."
and
"I well remember the horror of that concsiousness and I know vaguely that, having plunged in the dagger, I drew it out again immediately wishing to repair and arrest my action. She had straightened up and cried:
'Nurse, he has killed me!'"
"Dear me, dear me," say I. "These are not the times to be writing books, Don Eligio, even fool books like mine. Of literature I must begin to say what I have said of everything else: 'Curses on Copernicus!'"
"Oh, wait now," exclaims Don Eligio, the blood rushing to his face as he straightens up from his cramped position. (It is hot at noon time, and he has put on a broad-brimmed straw, for a bit of artificial shade.)
"What has Copernicus got to do with it?"
"More than you realize, perhaps ... "
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello.
I thought that might have been your diary...:lol: please don't detach my retinas, opti:thumbs_up :pQuote:
Originally Posted by optimisticnad
"and you, are you still here, tilting in this stranded ark, blind and seeing in the dark." Phyllis Web-Leaning
I will remember not to watch that movie! or read the book. Oh yuk, almost worse than Lear when the eyes are pushed in, even more graphic here. Yes, as Asa said - don't detach my retina:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by optimisticnad
Play nice and I won't have to! And you Janine!Quote:
Originally Posted by Asa Adams
Janine - that was nothing! Just a taster. You should read it, but its not for the faint hearted!
Oh and my diaries much much darker than that. :eek: (we have no sinister smileys!)
Why would world care for me when I don't care for him?
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The most powerful line of this masterpiece.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
So you have notice it too? Very nice, Asa aka Orwell!:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Asa Adams
That's only one of many many great quotes I've found in Hunchback. I agree, it really is a masterpiece!
But I don't get it; why do they have to kill everybody??? This realism sometimes makes me really sad.:bawling:
Even mothers who love you better than anyone ever will, don't always understand- The Railway Children
to the most beautiful woman i know,
now that i'm alone again, nopthing is as it once was.
the sky is grayer, the ocean is more forbidding.
will you make it right?
the only way is to see me again.
i miss you.'
message in a bottle, by nicholas sparks
just finished it actually.