Endeavours of the Literary Nature
Endeavours of the Literary Nature
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."
Vivian Greene
"What if I fall?". "Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?"
Erin Hanson
"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."
Roald Dahl
"She lends her pen to the thoughts of him, that flows from it in her solitary. For she is his poet, and he is her poetry."
Lang Leav
"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."
Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park)
"Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence.
"Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1)
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
Margaret Atwood
"She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."
Annie Dillard
"The saddest line scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments we both shared a smile."
Santosh Kalwar
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
"If you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
"She burnt too bright for the world."
Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
"Was it hard?" I asked her, "Letting go?". "No" she said, "Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real."
Lisa Schroeder
"Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the hardest of days, I have to be both."
Rudy Francisco
"I suppose everyone must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one’s pocket; the pocket knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once, I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of great epics is past."
G.K. Chesterton (A Piece of Chalk)
"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise)
"We were together. I forget the rest."
Walt Whitman
"Deeds will not be less valiant if they are left upraised."
J.R.R Tolkien (Aragorn, Lord of the Rings)
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; "the things people don’t say."
Virginia Woolf
"I never heard her speak, but I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice ever."
Julie Klassen (The Silent Governess)
"How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone."
Kurt Tucholsky
"Men fall in love with what they see. Women fall in love with what they hear. Which is why women will always wear makeup and men will always lie."
Idris Elba