It’s a dark place, not knowing. It’s difficult to surrender to. But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.
—Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
Tag: novel
People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
—Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
—Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
I simply didn’t know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.
—Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.
—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
—André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
—Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
He licked his lips. “Well, if you want my opinion—”
“I don’t,” she said. “I have my own.”
—Toni Morrison, Beloved
Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you’d think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
—Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
—George Orwell, 1984
That Book Broad 