“Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Go nowhere on a horse that fades.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise...”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any tongue that will do. Such words vanished from the world when it shook itself free from the ocean of chaos, in a cataclysm that reshaped it like one of the balls small children throw in the air at play.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.”
― Paula Hawkins, quote from The Girl on the Train
“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Life, the Universe and Everything
“There’re eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds in a day, right? There’re one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes in a day.”
Her brow knitted. “Okay. I’ll take your word for it.”
“I’m right.” I tapped my finger against my head. “A lot of useless knowledge up here.
Anyway, are you following me? There’re one hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week.
Around eighty-seven hundred and then some hours in a year, and you know what?”
She smiled. “What?”
“I want to spend every second, every minute, every hour with you.” Part of me
couldn’t believe something that cheesy had come out of my mouth, but it was also so beauti fully true. “I want a year’s worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade’s worth of hours, so many that I can’t add them up.”
Her chest rose sharply as she stared at me, eyes widening.
I took one more step and then went down on one knee in front of her, in a towel.
Probably should have put some pants on. “Do you want that?” I asked.
Kat’s eyes met mine, and the answer was immediate. “Yes. I want that. You know I want that.”
“Good.” My lips curved up. “So let’s get married.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Origin
“But even friendship like our heroes'
Exist no more; for we've outgrown
All sentiments and deem men zeroes--
Except of course ourselves alone.
We all take on Napoleon's features,
And millions of our fellow creatures
Are nothing more to us than tools...
Since feelings are for freaks and fools.
Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions
And on the whole despised mankind,
Yet wasn't, like so many, blind;
And since each rule permits exceptions,
He did respect a noble few,
And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”
― Alexander Pushkin, quote from Eugene Onegin
“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”
― John Fowles, quote from The Collector
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