When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.
There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take shorthand. Not my last line, stupid! the colonel shouted. Somebody else's. 'Read me back the last line,'...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat
There really is no place like the one you find between the pages of a book.
That's it, guys," I muttered, picking up one of the-undeniably pretty shoes-and looking at it. "That's how we battle sexism. We don't prove them wrong, we show up looking pretty and smile.
that's all my depression is now. Another battle scar. A silent one that will never be shown, a scar just for me, but a scar all the same. And just like the others, this too will fade.
There really is no place like the one you find between the pages of a book. The only place that comes close is in the arms of the person you love.
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
What is most healing about bearing witness to things exactly as they are, including my own part in my pain, is that when the voice of the pain fits the pain, there is no room for distortion or...
It's funny how people don't give that much thought to what kids want, as long as they're being quiet.
Kind of? Are you wearing sunglasses? It looks like it was crapped out by the fucking tooth fairy!
There isn't a price I wouldn't pay for you, Dayton. Money has no value when the thing you desire is priceless.
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, he Babbled, Crossing
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
Ah. The life of a twenty-something female looking for love. Disappointmend and embarrassment.
I'm the best kind of gentleman, darlin'. I'm polite in public and filthy in private. I
His being here tonight proved wrong everything I've lived thinking since I left.
Belief is relative. Religion is optional. Here is the thing, Noelle-no one can make you believe anything your heart isn't fully into. No one can dictate to you your feelings or dreams. And that means...
Sometimes in life you meet one person that changes the way you think, alters your perception of life and nothing else matters apart from them. I call them 'bada bing people'.
he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall?
Cupcakes are like sex for stress. Just a lot cleaner and slightly less pleasurable.
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing...
I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not...
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
In fact, though the books came slowly, he was a novelist to his bootlaces, an avid narrator who couldn't stop the story once it had started, who felt the terrors of existence so acutely that he had to...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze,...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Steal Captain Black's car, said Yossarian. That's what I always do. We can't steal anybody's car....
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something...