July 2011
41 posts
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“‘You set your heart too much on things, Anne,’ said Marilla with a sigh. ‘I’m...”
– Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (submitted by pinsan)
“You don’t have to know what you’re missing to get a longing for...”
– Katherine Taylor, Rules for Saying Goodbye
June 2011
19 posts
“I learned how New York sounded: a constant echoing stream of traffic and...”
– Katherine Taylor, Rules for Saying Goodbye
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aetatis:
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.
Toni Morrison; The Bluest...
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“Oh, but there’s such a difference between saying a thing yourself and...”
– Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (submitted by pinsan)
“There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won’t talk back—unless it is a...”
– Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (submitted by pinsan)
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“There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And...”
– Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery (submitted by pinsan)
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Hello everyone!
Sorry my posts have been inconsistent for the past few months. I’m on summer break now and I’ll be keeping ransombookquotes up to date starting tomorrow. I have many many books on my reading list this summer and hope you all will enjoy the quotes as much as I will.
All the best, L
“It wasn’t cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“Afterward, when the firing ended, they would blink and peek up. They would touch...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. Now and...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“Mostly he felt pleased to be alive. He liked the smell of the New Testament...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via crystalisedveins)
“They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear....”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“The letters weighed 10 ounces. They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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“It was my view then, and still is, that you don’t make war without knowing...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via seekthyreasontosurvive)
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