Icebergs in Paradise
My quote books sit on my beside table, currently with more than nine hundred quotes written down.
Here I am sharing them with you, accompanied by pictures or videos or other nifty things uncovered on the Internet.
Below each quote is a number, corresponding to it's numerical place in my books.
“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It’s James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it’s Marilyn heading off to bed.”
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (p. 120)
No. 586
(Source: yougotpattyslapped)
“It’s like my heart is getting hard.”
Gob Bluth, “The British Bombshell,” Arrested Development
No. 901
(Source: thebluthcompany, via wilsontown)
“The bus takes her away to wherever, to work, to dinner, to dream.”
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (p. 178)
No. 289
“Im selfish, impatient, and a little bit insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe
No. 906
(Source: rainbow1014)
“‘Midnight,’ you said. What’s midnight to the young?”
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (p. 50)
No. 895
(Source: weheartit.com, via highschoolramblings)
“Bad love letters beg for love back. Good love letters ask for nothing.”
Will Donner, Waiting for Forever
No. 697
(Source: papillonetabeilles)
“Matter was weary. Time gently dozed.”
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (p. 43)
No. 812
(Source: viesuitsoncours)
“I remember the time you told me/love was touching souls/but surely you touched mine/cause part of you pours out of me/in these lines from time to time.”
“A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell (covered by James Blake)
No. 709
“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (page 277)
No. 73
(Source: images3.cinema.de)
“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness.”
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov (page 72)
No. 72
(Source: images.mylot.com)
“He saw that her thick hair was, vulgarly speaking, brown, but that there was a shade of tawny autumn leaf in it for ‘appreciation’ — a colour indescribable and of which he had known no other case, something that gave her at moments the sylvan head of a huntress.”
The Golden Bowl by Henry James (page 37)
No. 89
(Source: judahpassow.com)
“History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave. Greatness, however, requires that leaders who change their times be seen to change themselves, or at least to embody great ideals.”
Dutch by Edmund Morris (page 4)
No. 246
(Source: static3.filmannex.com)
“Being a heartless douche doesn’t make you a Nazi propagandist!”
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (27 January 2011)
No. 277
(Source: fogcityjournal.com)
