“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes
“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes
“Sometimes I think you are doomed to happiness”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes
“She looked toward the window, smiling away her life”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes
“Philip understood that there were people in the world like Eliot for whom love and sex came easy, without active solicitation, like a strong wind to which they had only to turn their faces and it would blow over them. He also understood that he was not one of those people. Instead, he seemed always to be eking out signals, interpreting glances, trying to extract some knowledge of another person's feelings from the most trivial conversations. Nothing came easy for him, and more often than not, nothing came of any of his efforts.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes
David Leavitt
Born place: in Pittsburgh, The United States
Born date June 23, 1961
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“Martindale had no valid claim on Smiley either professionally or socially. He worked on the fleshy side of the Foreign Office and his job consisted of lunching visiting dignitaries whom no one else would have entertained in his woodshed. He was a floating bachelor with a grey mane and that nimbleness which only fat men have.”
― John le Carré, quote from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“His voice gentled and his touch became more like a caress. "I love you," he whispered.
"Romeo..."
"I love your glasses, your clumsiness, your wild hair, even the way you snort when you laugh." He smiled. "I love you in spite of yourself, Rim. Can't you love me in spite of myself?"
I couldn't help it, I smiled.
"You do come with a lot of baggage." I sighed. "You're impossibly good-looking, terrible at math, and you like to drink that swill you call beer." I mock shuddered.
He smiled, but I saw the relief in his eyes.
"Me being good-looking is a bad thing?" he teased.
"You have a lot of options," I said seriously. "I'm not the best one."
"No." He agreed. "You're not."
Geez, he could have said it a little nicer.
"You're the only one."
Oh, well, that was much better.
- Romeo & Rimmel”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Nerd
“do the work you love. And love yourself.”
― Felicia Day, quote from You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
“Raise thy head, Handmaiden of Orion, thou has borne thyself well thus far.”
― Robin Jarvis, quote from The Oaken Throne
“Una volta ho letto, non ricordo più dove, che agli oggetti antichi può legarsi una maledizione, uno scongiuro, un incantesimo, i quali poi vanno a colpire chi si mette in casa e custodisce simili chincaglierie. Sai forse che cosa inneschi, quando richiami con un fischio un cane randagio che ti viene incontro durante una passeggiata serale? Per compassione lo porti al caldo, nella tua stanza, ed ecco che, all'improvviso, dal suo pelo nero fa capolino il diavolo.
Io, pronipote di John Dee, sto forse vivendo ciò che accadde un tempo al dottor Faust?”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Angel of the West Window
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