“Every letter was a love letter.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
“‘It’s a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don’t, the hole will never be filled in again.’”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life …”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
