“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.” – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent.
reading
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
You’re my ~ Beautiful Bookworm ~
A sweet/scary thing is that Pup and I have been talking about moving in together.
We realized in the time we’ve been dating, we’ve only taken showers together. And so one of those silly little things we’ve got in the back of our heads when we get around to looking for a place is that a tub would be really, really nice.
“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.
“I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.
“There is, I think, a fear of love.
There is a fear of love.” – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin.
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good,” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
“‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” – Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.