December 2011
“I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so...”
– Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take...”
– Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith
“You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall...”
– Audre Lorde
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier; if I didn’t have any...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another,...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more...”
– Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of this Book Is Secret
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
“Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
– Mary Oliver
“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections?...”
– Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen’s Novel to Film
