Kate Morton
It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper. (Atria Books; First Edition edition October 16, 2012)
Category: Paraphrase
William Leal
It’s all messy: The hair. The bed. The Words. The Heart. Life… — William Leal
Heath Ledger
You see madness is like gravity, all it needs is a little push! — Heath Ledger [Joker] The Dark Knight (2008) Directed by Christopher Nolan
Lucrecia Martel
Desire is something that can’t be governed, that someone can feel toward any person really. It’s always much easier to think of someone in terms of desire than in terms of sex. Everything is complicated if we think in terms of sex. Desire is always above the law, beyond limitations. Desire is precisely where we… Continue reading Lucrecia Martel
J.D. Salinger
I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (Little, Brown & Co., 1951)
Ann Rinaldi
Because I had already resolved that if you’re afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you. ― Ann Rinaldi, Time Enough for Drums. (Troll Communications Llc; 1St Edition edition August 1988)
Reginald A. Ray
We have a wild, passionate, rampant; for experience, for being alive, for the tasting and touching of our world. It is completely unhinged. It’s reckless, this love we have. — Reginald A. Ray
Georges Bataille
Compared to the person I love, the universe seems poor and empty. This universe isn’t ‘risked’ because it’s not ‘perishable.’ But the beloved is the ‘beloved’ for only a single person. Carnal love, because not ‘sheltered from thieves’ or vicissitudes, is greater than divine love. It risks me and the one I love. God by… Continue reading Georges Bataille
Michael Ondaatje
I needed to think backwards for a while. Thinking backwards I could remember the comfort of being curious and alone. — Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table. (Jonathan Cape; 1st edition August 1, 2011)
George Orwell
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ― George Orwell, 1984. (Signet Classic… Continue reading George Orwell
