The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
She was filled with a strange wild unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it. Its like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can’t imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him.
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“But, Hildegarde, I can’t help it.”
“You can too. You’re simply stubborn. You think you don’t want to be like any one else. You always have been that way, and you always will be. But just think how it would be if every one else looked at things as you do—what would the world be like?”
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days-three such days with you i could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
- John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne
from quote-book
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?
- Alice in Wonderland
from quote-book
‘The kids like this bit,’ he said, implying that a visit to the notary public was something you might arrange if the new Harry Potter movie were sold out.
- Tony Martin, Lolly Scramble, The Notary Public
He knew that ‘I love you’ also means ‘I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you,’ and also, ‘I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you,’ and also, ‘I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.’
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
