"It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it."
Oscar Wilde.
#oscar wilde
"Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay."
Janet Fitch.
#janet fitch
"Fairy stories are in a sense the opposite of religion: You don’t believe them, you know you don’t believe them, they’re there in order not to be believed, and yet you need them."
A.S. Byatt.
#a.s. byatt
"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away."
Philip K. Dick.
#philip k. dick
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
Tom Stoppard.
#tom stoppard
"Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like “Poo-tee-weet?"
Kurt Vonnegut.
#kurt vonnegut
"We’d said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. We should have said we’d keep in words, because they are all we can string between us—words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen."
David Levithan.
#david levithan
"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern."
Frank O’Hara.
#frank o'hara
"Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they’re preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants."
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
#F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
Edgar Allen Poe.
#edgar allen poe
