Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
❝ I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. ❞
Richard Siken, Crush
❝ The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling. ❞
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
❝ What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? ❞
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
❝ There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other. ❞
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
❝ It was a pleasure to burn. ❞
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
❝ I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. ❞
Homer, The Iliad
❝ Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes! ❞
Anais Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love
❝ Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ❞
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
❝ I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. ❞
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
❝ You see, I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster. ❞