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Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
The Secret History- Donna Tartt
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
“If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
“If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.“
“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.“
The Idiot- Elif Batuman
“But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
“But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin
“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.”
“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.”
Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire,so complete,would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage,this interminable-this interminable life.”
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire,so complete,would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage,this interminable-this interminable life.”
Dubliners- James Joyce
“I had never spoken to her and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
“I had never spoken to her and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
The Hours- Michael Cunningham
“Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”
“Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”
Milkman- Anna Burns
“After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.”
“After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.”
At Swim, Two Boys- Jamie O’Neill
“They go to war because they love, each his country. And I too love my country. Do you feel the wind that is rising, the magnificent wind? These things will come, my dear. Let you dream of this.”
“They go to war because they love, each his country. And I too love my country. Do you feel the wind that is rising, the magnificent wind? These things will come, my dear. Let you dream of this.”
Maurice- E.M. Forster
“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone."
“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone."
Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
“I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
“I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
My Brilliant Friend (series)- Elena Ferrante
“Finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.”
“Finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.”
How To Be Both- Ali Smith
“Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.”
“Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.”
The Line of Beauty- Alan Hollinghurst
“He caught the beautiful rawness of those days again... everything tingling with newness and risk, glitter of frost and glow of body heat, the shock of finding and holding what he wanted among millions of strangers.”
“He caught the beautiful rawness of those days again... everything tingling with newness and risk, glitter of frost and glow of body heat, the shock of finding and holding what he wanted among millions of strangers.”
Tell the Wolves I’m Home- Carol Rifka Brunt
“Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretched like a thin cold river down the length of my whole life.”
“Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretched like a thin cold river down the length of my whole life.”
Tin Man- Sarah Winman
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
Brooklyn- Colm Tóibín
“She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.”
“She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.”
Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney
“Nick: i think john keats had a name for women like you
Nick: a french name
Nick: you see where i’m going with this
me: please call”
“Nick: i think john keats had a name for women like you
Nick: a french name
Nick: you see where i’m going with this
me: please call”
My Education- Susan Choi
“When did it happen, at midnight of one's thirty-first birthday? On the variable day that, while browsing a grocery-store aisle with a man, the repeating refrain of the rest of one's life for the first time resounds in one's ear?”
“When did it happen, at midnight of one's thirty-first birthday? On the variable day that, while browsing a grocery-store aisle with a man, the repeating refrain of the rest of one's life for the first time resounds in one's ear?”
The Witch Elm-Tana French
“Somewhere deeper than thought, I believed that if anyone could open up a route back to that life, it had to be them. I suppose I could say, and in spite of everything it wouldn’t be a lie, that I needed them both there because I loved them.”
“Somewhere deeper than thought, I believed that if anyone could open up a route back to that life, it had to be them. I suppose I could say, and in spite of everything it wouldn’t be a lie, that I needed them both there because I loved them.”
