Category: Quotes

I’d like to live that seemingly carefree and happy life for an evening, a few days, a week. At the end of that week I’d be exhausted, and would be grateful to the first person to talk to me about something meaningful. The Diary of a Young Girl 19 No one can keep out of…

I long for some terrific disaster. Earthquake. Spectacular explosion. Her mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated, along with everybody else for miles around. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 1 explain to Atticus that it wasn’t so much what Francis said that had infuriated me as the way he had said it. It was like he’d…

You ought to go to a boys’ school sometime. Try it sometime,” I said. “It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn…

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 8 Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw…