

“Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?”
― Beyond the Horizon - Acting Edition
― Beyond the Horizon - Acting Edition

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
― Richard III
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
― Richard III

“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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