“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Bubble-gum angels swooped from top margins, or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs. Maidens with golden hair dripped sea-blue tears into the books spine. Grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered species list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, Candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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