“He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
Memoirs of a Geisha
Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald
LiteratureThings are sweeter when they’re lost. I know – because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand.
The Beautiful and the Damned
– William Shakespeare
LiteratureThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings
Julius Caesar
– Pablo Neruda
LiteratureLos pájaros nocturnos picotean las primeras estrellas que centellean como mi alma cuando te amo.
The birds of the night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
VII – Inclinado En Las Tardes (Leaning Into The Afternoons)
– Markus Zusak
Literature“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.”
The Book Thief
– Victor Hugo
LiteratureThe soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Les Miserables
A Letter Found in First Edition Copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’
LiteratureFor Charles T. Scott,
Gatsby was never quite real to me. His original served for a good enough exterior until about the middle of the book he grew thin and I began to fill him with my own emotional life. So he’s synthetic – and that’s one of the flaws in this book.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellerslie, Edgemoore, Delaware, 1927
– Euripides
LiteratureMEDEA: Tell me, how does it feel with my teeth in your heart?
Medea
– Charlotte Bronte
LiteratureMy very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Jane Eyre
– Margaret Atwood
LiteratureShe imagines him imagining her.
This is her salvation.
The Blind Assassin
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