Quote from Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.
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Quote from Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
Deep down, I donāt believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in usāevery man, woman, and childāand with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable ofā¦the featā¦.You must learn to stop being yourself. Thatās where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. Thatās how itās done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground.Like so.
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Quote from Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis
James – “Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?”Elizabeth – “Oh, I’m definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.
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Quote from Natsuki Takaya
We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call ‘misdirected rage’. I believe the technical term is being an ass.
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Quote from Karen Chance, Hunt the Moon
Iād have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. Iād have been a lot more appreciative if he hadnāt pushed me first.” ~Cassandra Palmer
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Quote from James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
For I amāor I wasāone of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at allāa real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be namedābut elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joeyās bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very wellāby not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.
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Quote from Louis de BerniĆØres, Corelli’s Mandolin
Love itself is what is left over when being “in love” has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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Quote from pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
After you’re gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.The things you’ve done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.
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