“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” ― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.” “Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?” “Yes. I want to ruin you.” “Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.” ―Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew — knew — that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddamn stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
About this page
This is a small archive of one-off lines — things that stop me mid-page or mid-scroll.
Not full reflections, just moments worth keeping.