#anne quotes books

[appleinducedsleep]

I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters/ Anne Sexton, from a letter to Anne Clarke dated 23 March 1964

[thebookquotes]

I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962

[mylyy]

Anne Carson, from Grief lessons: Four plays by Euripides.

[deviika]

Anne Carson // Jonathan Safran Foer

[jaanjahan]

tumblr / happy together dir. wong kar wai / june by florence and the machine / x / tumblr / the thrill, the fear, the hope / blade runner 2049 dir. denis villeneuve / dirt and desire, the phenomenology of female pollution in antiquity by anne carson / tumblr / it takes two by steve mccury / jim butcher / e.e. cummings

[quotespile]

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.

Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl

[shisasan]

Anne Sexton,  A Self-Portrait in Letters

[fairydrowning]

"I'm not doing awfully well but I'm trying very, very, very hard."

– Anne Sexton, from a letter to Florence Ehrhardt, c. February 1974

[wordscanbeenough]

Anne Carson, from "Tag"

[wedarkacademia]

when Anne Sexton wrote, "it doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"

[appleinducedsleep]

I suppose most children fall in love with faeries at some point, but my fascination was never about magic or the granting of wishes. The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs-and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.

Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

[bumblebeeonthemoon]

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery

[thebookquotes]

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Anne Sexton, "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters"

[thehobbitchronicles]

“because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while” — Anne With An E

[quotesfrommyreading]

The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” These words are “inspiring,” by which we mean that they flatter us. They make us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls – and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. The gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift that lies at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank's hiding place, in her writings, in her “legacy.” It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being “truly good at heart” before meeting people who weren't. Three weeks after writing those words, she met people who weren't.

  —  People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Dara Horn)