

“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves

“Our disappointment sits between us.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“They will blow it, she thought. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow—some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin.”
― God Help the Child
― God Help the Child

“Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
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