'But nobody was moving around. There were no scary shadows. Everything lay in moonlight, and I could see the smallest things.' - 'I Could See the Smallest Things' from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
'...and when something weird happens, when you find a spider in your shoe or if you take a breath and feel like a broken window...' - 'Blow Up' from Blow Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
'...and it was that moment between six and seven when every flower - roses, carnations, irises, lilac - glows; white, violet, red, deep orange; every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty bed...' - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
'So on a summers day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying "that is all" more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, that is all. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.' Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
'Mephistophelis: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Thinkest thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with a thousand hells...
Faustus: Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,
And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.' - Doctor Faustus by Marlowe
'...la terre couleur de sang qui roulait sur la biere de maman, la chair blanche des racines qui s'y melaient...' L'étranger by Albert Camus
August 2nd, 2012 at 09:41pm