book quotes
ideas, prose or other writing that grabbed me
book quotes
"I must do great things that will be done by no other" -The Heroic Oath by Emily Dickinson
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worth while or it may be worthless. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than
... See moreAll you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.
Surface Detail Quotes by Iain M. Banks
Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail, describing Auppi’s death. The quintessential materialist philosophy of The Culture summed up.
“Dr. Urbino smiled at her from the far shore of ecstasy...” -Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez