242 Quotes About Literary

It's not the lying itself that makes makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends. I don't like not playing with them and I don't like lying to them because they are the most important thing to me and when I'm not with them I feel like I'm not even me.

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

I needed words, lots of words to think about while I was going about the rest of the day. And I didn't want anything affected. I wanted nothing to do with those Romance languages. I wanted clipped words, full of common sense. Thoughts to wear beneath my thoughts. Allow, express, oath, vow, dismay, matter, splash, mollify. I liked those words. I liked saying them. I still do.

Aren't songs of grief lullabies to the lost?

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

Defying her immutably kind voice, when Juniper draws nearer, she notices that the woman’s eyes are completely black and without pupils. Juniper gawks at the strange-looking, devilish deity for a long while before the woman, herself, breaks the noiselessness, “Am I so strange that you have to stare?