But that's why you're upset now. Fiction is not life.'' You don't believe that.'' I think I do.'' You know as well as I do that the line can't be drawn, that we're infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it's inescapable.'' Don't be a sophist, ' he said. 'There is a world and it's palpable.'' I don't mean that, ' I said. 'I mean that it's hard really to see it, that it's all hazy with out dreams and fantasies. . Siri Hustvedt
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
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William Goldman
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Leo Tolstoy
We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again,...
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Tim Farrington
She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough...
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Jodi Picoult
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
More Quotes By Siri Hustvedt
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
I was happy without having sought happiness.
I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space in that narrow room, I whispered prayers of thanks that I was really and truly here in New York, beginning another life. I...
