“When grief for fiction’s idle words More real than human life appears, Reflect that life itself’s a dream And do not mock the reader’s tears.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dreamer Wakes
“Better by far the destiny of plant or stone, bereft of knowledge and consciousness, but blessed at least with purity and peace of mind!”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dreamer Wakes
“When grief for fiction’s idle words
More real than human life appears,
Reflect that life itself’s a dream
And do not mock the reader’s tears.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dreamer Wakes
“Better by far the destiny of plant or stone, bereft of knowledge and consciousness, but blessed at least with purity and peace of mind!’ These”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dreamer Wakes
“In the courtyard before them grew a clump of bright green bamboo, while by the main doorway stood a row of dark pine-trees.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dreamer Wakes
Cao Xueqin
Born place: Nanjing, China
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“Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in saying something holy entered into a woman in that stinking place…full of faeces and urine, which emits discharge and menstrual blood and serves as a receptacle for men’s semen.”
― Geraldine Brooks, quote from People of the Book
“When she got control of herself a few minutes later, she realized that in his arms she felt almost what she had in her dream, that inexpressible sense of peace and security. Of belonging, utterly.
As long as her soulmate was alive, and they were together, she would be all right.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Night World, No. 3
“-Gracias por esto, Ángel, pero no me gusta el Coco Pops.
Le fruncí el ceño, confundida. Siempre estaba comiendo mi cereal.
-Claro que sí, te lo comes todos los días.
Se echó a reír.
-No, no lo hago. Hago un plato cada día y pretendo comerlo, antes de que vengas y me lo arrebates.
-¿Por qué diablos harías un plato y pretender comerlo? ¿Te gusta hacerme enojar?
-No, Ángel. Me gusta hacerte el desayuno.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
“But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from The Casual Vacancy
“I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”
― Stephanie Perkins, quote from Lola and the Boy Next Door
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