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“He likes dramas and ordeals and tests of courage, he doesn’t care if he destroys people because he doesn’t care if he destroys himself.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Book and the Brotherhood

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Alone. What an odd gloss we have here on Alone at last. Since alone at last, for every hero in a gothic, every villain in a melodrama, traditionally assumes a cast of two.

Renata Adler, from Pitch Dark

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I thank you for everything. I am sorry for everything, and I remain Yours respectfully . . .

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room

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“What happens when your only escape is the same thing you’re trying to escape?”

— Rebecca Makkai, from I Have Some Questions for You

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“But I’m in a different world, I’m in pain, I’m in the presence of death.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil

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“It’s all we hoped — it’s also all we feared.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Book and the Brotherhood

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Before I even found you, I imagined losing you.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

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In any event, I have grown by now to love him. I wonder whether he is going to leave me after all.

Renata Adler, from Pitch Dark

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“By now I had enough alcohol inside me to feel despair at the prospect of having to stop drinking.”

— Iris Murdoch, from Under the Net

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No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't fall in love with Tony. Yet somehow he always boomeranged back to her, and she was afraid she might get stuck with him out of simple inertia.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

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“I didn’t care about anything that was left. I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.”

— George Eliot, from Middlemarch

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“Actions don’t lie, words always do.”

— Iris Murdoch, from Under the Net (via howifeltabouthim)

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“Every time This is what I do with love”

— Melissa Broder, from Last Sext

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She had cried herself to sleep countless times as a child, promising to be better the next day in order to finally win her mother's love. That love had never come, but she had never stopped striving for it.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

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“‘I think my heart knew you were mine long before I ever realized it.’”

— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

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It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill—getting larger 'cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

Chris Kraus, from I Love Dick

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“This is my death that I prayed for.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil