“Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?”
“Yes. I want to ruin you.”
“Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
quotes
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”
– Richard Siken, “Scheherazade.”
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beauty, we quiver before it.” – Donna Tartt, The Secret History.
“You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place.” – Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters.
“Hurt me. Until I am outside pain.” – Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing.
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.” – Isadora Duncan.
“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” – Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay.”
“Miele” Series
“You aren’t very hard to corrupt and you’re an awful lot of fun to corrupt.”— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden.
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.