💬 Quotes

"He didn't want to be judged by the standards of a world that didn't understand the beauty of his decadence."

"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."

"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."

"I like to be where the things are, and not in the place where things are remembered."

"The earth was like a floor of a theatre, and the sun seemed to be at the center of the world."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"I’m not going to have my babies in a town. I want them to grow up out here, where the land is alive."

"There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not see it in the grass. But there was the sky, in which the sun was sinking in red and gold."

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison."

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

"You should have distinguished between the man who was merely a gentleman and the man who was a gentleman in heart and principle."

"It is the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely."

"I’m like Catherine the Great. I only sleep with people who are going to be king."

"It’s useful, being top banana in the shock department."

"You can’t just give someone a piece of your heart, you know. It’s like trying to catch the wind in a butterfly net."

"Nobody is ever going to put me in a cage. I want to be free to be myself, and that means I don't belong to anyone."

"The blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of."

"I’m not Holly, I’m just me. I don’t know who I am. I’m like this place and the things in it: I’ve never been given right to call them mine."