It had a peculiar attraction for this immoral wretch, who had before this admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty.
It had a peculiar attraction for this immoral wretch, who had before this admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty.
"Lucid veterans learn to test reality in two ways; pain and gravity."
~ The Lucid Dreamer by Malcolm Godwin
He would have filled his glass, but there was no drink left.
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
K turned to his mother.
The opening of the cell door brought me awake.
"He had heard that women often love unattractive, simple people, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself, and he only loved beautiful, mysterious and special women." Tolstoy, Anna K
It is sensibly planned, with a redbrick club on its brow, and farther back a grocer's and a cemetery, and the bungalows are disposed along roads that intersect at right angles.
A passage to India by E. M. Forster
"The mighty merchant smiled." .............. Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
haha "He walked into the room with caution."
"We can't ever be friends again." - John Fowles, The Magus.
"All of the clocks in the room had wound down - the tambours and carriage clocks on the mantel, the banjo and mirror and Viennese regulator on the walls, the Chelsea ship's bells on the rolltop desk, the ogee on the end table, and the seven-foot walnut-cased Stevenson grandfather's clock, made in Nottingham in 1801, with its moon-phase window on the dial and pair of robins threading flowery buntings around the Roman numerals." - Tinkers by Paul Harding
Wow, a long one. :)
"Deborah's complexion was mottling with red."
"An American Dream" by Norman Mailer
I said nothing.
"Do the Mammoth publish you too?"
PG Wodehouse, Something New/Fresh, 1915
I believe what ensues between these two people who met 2 minute ago because she laughed at him doing Larsen Exercise 1, is summig up Facebook way ahead of time:
" - ...Why, we are comrades in misfortune - fellow serfs. We should be friends. Shall we be friends?
- I should be delighted.
- Shall we shake hands, sit down and talk about ourselves a little?
- But I am keeping you from your work.
- An errand of mercy."
That could be Facebook, couldn't it. Oh, we're colleagues, we have to be friends on Facebook... Even down to the 'I'm keeping you from your work.' PG Wodehouse was such an observant man he could even see into the future... :D
I then reflected - and the thought made me shiver that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there - alive and walking about.
-Mary Shelley, Frankenstien