Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“Maria turned away. After that either she or Carter slept most nights in the other room. Some nights he said that he was tired, and some nights she said that she wanted to read, and other nights no one said anything.”
— Pg. 184, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
Widowed at twenty-two, Laura had one daughter, Peggy, to whom she devoted her life. When Peggy was sixteen, she confided to her mother that she was pregnant and that the lover who had promised to marry her had deserted her. “Well-meaning friends” advised an abortion and told Smith, “There is a way. Hide this thing from sight, send her on a journey.
... See moreBarbara Goldsmith • Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
A sensitive woman, disappointed in marriage, exhausts her own ingenuity before she takes counsel.
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
"No," said Sue, "I'll go on to the house with him"; and requesting her lover not to be a long time she departed with the schoolmaster.
Thomas Hardy • Jude the Obscure: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version)
He was, if anything, out of place, a man among women, for the atmosphere surrounding Cynthia Gibson was feminine, conspiratorial. I saw that it was the function of the nurse to provide the repartee that he was too sombre to deliver. Yet how he must have loved her! Even now his eyes never left her face. What must one do to inspire such love? Clearly
... See moreAnita Brookner • Undue Influence
In short I left her, when I went away at night, the prop and staff of Mr. Peggotty’s affliction; and I could not meditate enough upon the lesson that I read in Mrs. Gummidge, and the new experience she unfolded to me.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Caterina was thinking of the near future—of the wedding that was so soon to come—of all she would have to live through in the next months. 'I wish I could be very ill, and die before then,' she thought. 'When people get very ill, they don't mind about things. Poor Patty Richards looked so happy when she was in a decline. She didn't seem to care any
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Scenes of Clerical Life
Susan nodded. “Beth had one, on ‘The Days of Our Lives,’ when she moved in with the lawyer. And I want one too. I’ve been really lonely out here at night. I didn’t like Marty, but even so, I missed him when he moved out to the camp.”