“It’s not so much that I like him as a person, God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”
-Judy Blume
The Pale Queen's Literary Quotes
"I wanted to do whatever Amazing Thing I was
expected to do... and be done with it.
Go to sleep.
Go to a heaven where there was nothing but
bathtubs and books."
— Marya Hornbacher
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“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”-A.M. Homes
“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don’t I ever learn? Why don’t I ever do anything different?”
-Charles Yu
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self-pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
“And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.”
-Lauren Groff
“The air between them seemed to accumulate energy.”
-Anthony Doerr
“And now here’s the thing. It takes a time like this for you to find out how sore your heart has been, and, moreover, all the while you thought you were going around idle, terribly hard work was taking place. Hard, hard work, excavation and digging, mining, moiling through tunnels, heaving, pushing, moving rock, working, working, working, working, panting, hauling, hoisting.”
-Saul Bellow
“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
-Zora Neale Hurston
“You know, there’s something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We’re all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.”
-Charles Baxter
