quote: i want to taste and glory in each day

"I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain." — Sylvia Plath [x]

quote: no he is not tactful

“No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?” ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View [x]

quote: dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." —Edgar Allen Poe [x]

quote: something so amiable

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." —Jane Austen [x]

quote: let them think you were born that way

"It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way." —Ernest Hemingway [x]

quote: i sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you

“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart…

quote: nelly, i am heathcliff

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the…

quote: i am made of literature

“I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.” ― Franz Kafka [quote from goodreads]

quote: i want to write something new

“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” [quote from goodreads]

quote: the book must be the axe

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we…