https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes If you're reading this and you end up writing/wanting to write something based off a prompt, let me know!! I would love to know what you come up with. | I read a lot of books for English courses and they just so happen to have interesting quotes or ideas. Search "Book List" to easily access the lists of everything I've read for classes/on my own! en-us 2017-01-21 19:36:50 UTC 2023-01-25 17:02:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://d30y9cdsu7xlg0.cloudfront.net/png/19278-200.png frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529403 [beginning]
"He wanted to stabilize his life, settle down with one person and live out a long, rewarding love. But [he] could only love other men: boys, to be exact. Volatile, charming, will-o-the-wisp boys, who looked him up Friday, loved him Saturday, and left him Sunday. They couldn't even spell 'stabilize.'"

[end]
"[He] left. [I'm sorry but] it's winter, after all. Spring will bring somebody new. It always does."

Jack Mann, Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529403 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529782 "I fall in love twice a year. Once in the fall and once in the  spring. In the fall the kids come back to school, a few blocks from here. There are plenty of newcomers waiting to be loved the wrong way in September." 

Jack Mann, Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529782 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529954 "It shook you. But not because it was vulgar and indecent. Because it was beautiful and exciting." 

Jack Mann, Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148529954 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530027 "She wanted everyone to be happy on this night full of sequin-lights and clouds of music."

Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530027 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530039 "You can't be in love with someone you just met."

Beebo, Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530039 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530102 "She stood with her dazzling naked back, delicately sugared with freckles, to Beebo, who admired it in infatuated silence."

 Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 19:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530102 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530147 "But all the time I was waiting for somebody wonderful to come along; for a beautiful love affair to make it all right. We'd live quietly together, we'd cherish each other, and life would be rosy."

Paula Ash,  Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530147 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530188 "All I can do is invite you. I can't make you come."
- note the double entendre

Venus Bogardus,  Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530188 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530318 "He's your sunshine, not mine."

Beebo,  Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530318 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530353 Venus: I'm not responsible for your weakness, am I?
Beebo: You know damn well you are.

Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530353 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530384 "The night was mild and the stars were sprinkled thick as spilled soapflakes across the sky."

 Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530384 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530405 "Promise me one last thing, and then I'll shut up."
"I'll promise you that moon on a platter if you want it."

 Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530405 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530437 "It was easy to get carried away when you had your arms full of [v]enus."

 Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530437 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530442 "I'd rather fall in love in the sunshine than the rain."

Jack Mann, Beebo Brinker]]> 2017-01-21 20:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148530442 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148601017 “I want to get acquainted with you once and for all, and I want you to get acquainted with me. And with that, to say good-bye. I think it's best to get acquainted before parting."

Ivan Fyodorovich, The Brothers Karamazov (229)]]> 2017-01-22 23:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148601017 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148601334 "I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world."

Alexei Fyodorovich, The Brothers Karamazov (231)]]> 2017-01-22 23:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/148601334 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/149466242 "[His] body was brown, was sweaty, the most beautiful creation I had ever seen since then." 

Giovanni's Room (8) ]]> 2017-01-25 20:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/149466242 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150137424 "Supernovas are where gold forms; the only place. All gold comes from supernovas." 

Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen 
(121, panel 2)]]> 2017-01-30 02:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150137424 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150392789 "The cold, suffocating dark does on forever, and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else."

Walter Kovacs, Watchmen (204)]]> 2017-01-30 21:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150392789 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734117 "The euphemisms of body were equally puzzling, if no less colorful."

Zami (32)]]> 2017-02-01 03:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734117 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734196 "The sensual context of life was masked and cryptic, but attended in well-coded phrases." 

Zami (32)]]> 2017-02-01 03:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734196 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734360 "I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers."

Zami (32)]]> 2017-02-01 03:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734360 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734607 "I was sane and grown a poet with a mouthful of stars."

Zami (32) ]]> 2017-02-01 03:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734607 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734684 "I grew up feeling like an only planet, or some isolated world in a hostile, or at best, unfriendly, firmament." 

Zami (34) ]]> 2017-02-01 03:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734684 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734757 "I could feel the creeping warmth of her, slowly spreading all along the front of my body through the many layers of nothing, and as she  turned to me the damp warmth of her breath fogged up my spectacles a little in the crisp winter air." 

Zami (39) ]]> 2017-02-01 03:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/150734757 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151228324 "I never saw her dance except privately, for me."

Zami (91)]]> 2017-02-02 17:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151228324 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151228729 "We usually made dates to meet at Columbus Circle or in Washington Square Park, and for a while the golden leaves near each fountain hid the harshness of the confused and alien colors that were sweeping up over our paths." 

Zami (93) ]]> 2017-02-02 17:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151228729 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151633178 “There is no future. There is no past. ...Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

Jon, Watchmen (286)]]> 2017-02-05 01:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151633178 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151633366 "I read atoms. I see the ancient spectacle that birthed the rubble. Beside this, human life is brief and mundane." 

Jon, Watchmen (297)]]> 2017-02-05 01:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151633366 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151851433 “Do you know what it takes to change the world? ...You have to figure out what you really believe in and then find other people who feel the same way. The only thing you have to do alone is to decide what’s important to you."

Mrs. Noble, Stone Butch Blues (46)]]> 2017-02-06 15:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/151851433 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152016726 "[She] told me if I were a guy she'd be in love with me." 

Stone Butch Blues]]> 2017-02-07 01:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152016726 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152016956 "We refuse to be each other."

H.J. Blackham
epigraph for 'kipps and belsey' On Beauty]]> 2017-02-07 01:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152016956 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152278564 "He's one of those people, [he thought], who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. [He] didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers." 

On Beauty (33)]]> 2017-02-07 19:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152278564 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152284701 "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"

On Beauty (44)]]> 2017-02-07 19:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152284701 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152291391 "Each couple is its own vaudeville act."

On Beauty (56)]]> 2017-02-07 20:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152291391 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152292755 "If she was going to leave him, she should have done so in the winter. But she had stayed and now summer was here. The only account she could give of this decision was that she was not quite done loving him, which was the same as saying she was not quite done yet with Love—Love itself being coeval with knowing [him]."

On Beauty  (59-60) ]]> 2017-02-07 20:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152292755 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152662799 "[She] returned her own gaze to the moon. So much more lovely than the sun and you can look at it without fear or harm." 

On Beauty (71)]]> 2017-02-09 02:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152662799 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152662814 "There is such a shelter in each other." 

On Beauty (93) 
quote by Nick Laird ]]> 2017-02-09 02:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152662814 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152894399 "We walked our talk and we appreciated it in each other. Slow dancing at dawn, making fierce love, leaning together as one with the motorcycle into a deep curve – it just got better and better." 

Stone Butch Blues (]]> 2017-02-09 19:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/152894399 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/153320203 "Time is not what it is but how it is felt." 

On Beauty (129)]]> 2017-02-13 00:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/153320203 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/154849577    “Outside a rush of torches.
   Laughter drifts into the hall. The elect have always been this way.
 Getting old, dying, starting again. Not noticing.
 (...) It has always been this way, nothing can intrude.”

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (93)]]> 2017-02-20 02:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/154849577 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/154854261 “We were quiet, and I traced the outline of her marvellous bones and the triangle of muscle in her stomach. What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (103) ]]> 2017-02-20 03:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/154854261 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161352282 "...I will never know how you see ed and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness / is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us..."

Autobiography of Red (105)]]> 2017-03-20 23:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161352282 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161631264 “Once we name something, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unnameable falls away, gets lost, is murdered. You called this the cookie cutter function of our minds.”

The Argonauts (4) ]]> 2017-03-21 18:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161631264 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161886880 "That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. I hate that. I couldn't stand it." 

Midori, Norwegian Wood (77)]]> 2017-03-22 16:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161886880 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161976736 "Perhaps this is why D.W. Winnicott's notion of 'feeling real' is so moving to me. One can aspire to feel real, one can help others to feel real, and one can oneself feel real—a feeling Winnicott describes as the collected, primary sensation of aliveness, 'the aliveness of the body tissues and working of body-functions, including the heart's action and breathing,' which makes spontaneous gesture possible. For Winnicott, feeling real is not reactive to external stimuli, nor is it an identity. It is a sensation—a sensation that spreads. Among other things, it makes one want to live." 

The Argonauts (14)]]> 2017-03-22 21:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/161976736 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/163254090 "Still, couldn't you allow me just one brief appearance? I want to be in one of your sexual fantasies or daydreams or whatever you call them. I'm asking you because we're friends. Who else can I ask for something like that? I can't just walk up to anyone and say, 'When you masturbate tonight, will you please think of me for a second?' It's because I think of you as a friend that I'm asking. And I want you to tell me later what it was like like. You know, what you did and stuff." 

Midori Kobayashi, Norwegian Wood (174)]]> 2017-03-28 19:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/163254090 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164134541 "I was trembling. I thought, if I do not open the door at once and get out of here, I am lost. But I knew I could not open the door, I knew it was too late; soon it was too late to do anything but moan. He pulled me against him, putting himself into my arms as though he were giving me himself to carry, and slowly pulled me down with him to that bed. With everything in me screaming No!  yet the sum of me sighed Yes."

Giovanni's Room (64)]]> 2017-04-02 00:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164134541 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164134752 "And, with my kisses, I was trying to delay the moment which would commit me to her, or fail to commit me to her."

Giovanni's Room (121)]]> 2017-04-02 00:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164134752 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164135709 "I do not know what I felt for [him]. I felt nothing for [him]. I felt terror and pity and a rising lust." 

Giovanni's Room (138)]]> 2017-04-02 01:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164135709 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164137853 "I don't ever want to make the mistake of needing him as much or more than he needs me."

The Argonauts (45)]]> 2017-04-02 02:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/164137853 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165010038 "My whole body felt enveloped in some kind of membrane, cutting off any direct contact between me and the outside world. I couldn't touch "them," and "they" couldn't touch me."

Norwegian Wood (247)]]> 2017-04-05 21:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165010038 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165277580 "Tell me about yourself."
"What about me?"
"Hmm, I don't know; what do you hate?"
"Chicken and VD and barbers who talk too much." 
"What else?"
"Lonely April nights and lacy telephone covers." 

Norwegian Wood (264)]]> 2017-04-06 23:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165277580 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165277757 "Again and again, I called out for [her] from the dead center of this place that was no place." 

Norwegian Wood (293)]]> 2017-04-06 23:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/165277757 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166917291 "...to take one's body and willingly set it upon the open sea, this for me is not act brought about by desire but a consequence of it, maybe." 

The Book of Salt (57) ]]> 2017-04-19 03:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166917291 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166917556 "This is a temple, not a home."

The Book of Salt (23)]]> 2017-04-19 03:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166917556 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920130 "Spain, [she] thinks, is where her soul first emerged, fully formed. ... Paris, she knows, has its share of seductions, but those are at lesat corporeal in form."

The Book of Salt (29)]]> 2017-04-19 03:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920130 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920306 "...my vanity would understand the honey in her voice..."

The Book of Salt (38)]]> 2017-04-19 03:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920306 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920482 "A curse is a father in name only or the tightness of Monsieur or Madame's hands around my neck even when they are not there."

The Book of Salt (59)]]> 2017-04-19 03:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920482 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920641 "For tenderness, we all know that braising is better than an open flame."

The Book of Salt (62)]]> 2017-04-19 03:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920641 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920691 "A kiss freely given is a wonder to watch, even if it is seen through the slit of a partially closed door."

The Book of Salt (71)]]> 2017-04-19 03:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920691 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920778 "...a false memory of love lost to a wide, open sea."

The Book of Salt (74)]]> 2017-04-19 03:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166920778 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166924834 "We took the half of an hour, the half of a waxing moon, and roped it around the city's still, blue streets. Intimacy, or something very close to it, was spun and webbed this way. Every week brought with it another half-hour, another sliver of the moon, till he had the entirety of a night. Naturally, the space between our bodies began to disappear. Effortlessly, we began to touch." 

The Book of Salt (63)]]> 2017-04-19 04:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166924834 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166924971 "...there is no narrative in sex, in good sex that is. There is no beginning and there is no end, just the rub, the sting, the tickle, the white light of the here and now. That is why it is so addictive, so worth the risk. ... It is a gamble worth taking." 

The Book of Salt (63)]]> 2017-04-19 04:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166924971 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166925484 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Atonement by Ian McEwan
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Zone One by Colson Whitehead

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky)
Watchmen by Alan Moore
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Diary of a Bad Year by J.C. Coetzee
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami]]> 2017-04-19 04:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/166925484 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167042051 If Not, Winter by Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)
The Symposium by Plato
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Zami by Audre Lorde
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Oranges Aren't The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Autobiography of Red by Ann Carson
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson]]> 2017-04-19 15:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167042051 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167146594 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong
Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts by Heather Masri]]> 2017-04-19 22:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167146594 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167634864 "A kiss on the mouth can become a kiss on the mouth. A hand on a shoulder can become a hand on the hips. A laugh on his lips can become a moan on mine."

The Book of Salt (99)]]> 2017-04-22 16:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167634864 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167634973 "In a city that always looks better in a memory, time lost can make the night seem eternal and full of stars."

The Book of Salt (99)]]> 2017-04-22 16:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167634973 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167635058 "Train stations are terrible places for good-byes."

The man on the bridge, The Book of Salt (100)]]> 2017-04-22 16:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167635058 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653239 "...the whole world appeared to be gathered into one sunbeam and thus brought before his eyes."

St Benedict, His Life and Work by T.F. Lindsay, as quoted in A History of Reading (114)]]> 2017-04-22 23:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653239 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653286 "Allowing someone else to speak the words on a page for us is an experience far less personal than holding the book and following the text with our own eyes." 

A History of Reading (123)]]> 2017-04-22 23:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653286 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653287 "Her mother does not believe in fiction: 'So many complications, so much passionate love in those novels.'" 

A History of Reading (149)]]> 2017-04-22 23:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653287 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653301 "The best time for reading a good stylish story is in fact when one is on a train travelling alone. With strangers roundabout, and unfamiliar scenery passing by the window (at which you glance now and again) the endearing and convoluted life coming out of the pages possesses its own peculiar and imprinting effects." 

Alan Sillitoe, A History of Reading (152)]]> 2017-04-22 23:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653301 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653347 "This uneasy relationship between writer and reader has a beginning; it was established for all time on a mysterious Mesopotamian afternoon. It is a fruitful but anachronic relationship between a primeval creator who gives birth at the moment of death, and a post-mortem creator, or rather generations of post-mortem creators who enable the creation itself to speak, and without whom all writing is dead. From its very start, reading is writing's apotheosis."

A History of Reading (179)]]> 2017-04-22 23:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/167653347 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168174615 "One of the most startling paradoxes inherent in writing is its close association with death."

Orality and Literacy (80)]]> 2017-04-25 17:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168174615 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168174934 "The dead flower, once alive, is the psychic equivalent of the verbal text. The paradox lies in the fact that the deadness of the text, its removal from the living human lifeworld, its rigid visual fixity, assures its endurance and its potential for being resurrected into limitless living contexts by a potentially infinite number of living readers." 

Orality and Literacy (80)]]> 2017-04-25 17:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168174934 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168235426 "Writing is a solipsistic operation." 

Orality and Literacy (99)]]> 2017-04-25 20:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/168235426 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/169108400 "There's so many things I wish I had told you. I never could find the words." 

"Write me a letter someday." 

Stone Butch Blues (165)]]> 2017-05-01 03:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/169108400 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/171645842 "I know you both loved each other a lot."
"Sometimes love just isn't enough." 

Stone Butch Blues (100) ]]> 2017-05-14 01:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/171645842 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/171645850 "You're really brave." 
"I'm not, really. I'm scared all the time." 
"What a brave thing to say." 

Stone Butch Blues (101)]]> 2017-05-14 01:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/171645850 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/172188513 I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics
salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
Flux by Orion Carloto
I Wrote This For You by pleasefindthis
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
The Waves by Virginia Woolf]]> 2017-05-16 19:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/172188513 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/172188596 "It's okay to be addicted to beauty. Emerson said 'Beauty is God's handwriting.' I'm addicted to it too. Most artists are."

Dianna, I'll Give You The Sun ]]> 2017-05-16 19:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/172188596 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174095210 "The end of the world begins with rain."

I'll Give You The Sun]]> 2017-05-27 17:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174095210 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821305 "Every person and evrything has its own throb and rhythm." 

Bình on GertrudeStein's obsession with automobiles, The Book of Salt (182)]]> 2017-06-01 14:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821305 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821556 "Sinners lack passion." 

Miss Toklas, The Book of Salt (187)]]> 2017-06-01 14:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821556 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821634 "Are you so pissed drunk...that you think that I learned how to love, how to find passion in another man's body, from reading and writing?" 

Bình, The Book of Salt (194)]]> 2017-06-01 14:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821634 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821807 "He can make me open my legs but never my eyes." 

Bình's mother, The Book of Salt (201)]]> 2017-06-01 14:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821807 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821834 "I close my eyes, a useless flutter. I open them, and I see you half a world away. I hear fever parting your lips. I feel your shiverings, colorless geckos running down your spine. I smell the night sweat that has bathed you clean." 

Bình, The Book of Salt (220)]]> 2017-06-01 14:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/174821834 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178215006 "It is surprising that the notion of an individual afterlife persists in intellectually respectable versions of Christianity. It so transparently fills a lack ... that religion ought simply to note such incapacity as part of the human condition and leave it at that.

The persistence of the soul in an unrecognizable form, unknown to itself, without memory, without identity, is another question entirely."

Diary of a Bad Year (154)]]> 2017-07-06 19:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178215006 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178215151 "The afterworld is a sad and subdued place."

Diary of a Bad Year (159)]]> 2017-07-06 19:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178215151 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178317683 "Why should not our every utterance come accompanied by a reminder that before too long we will have to say goodbye to this world?"

Diary of a Bad Year (167)]]> 2017-07-09 03:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178317683 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178344976 "A preface to a story that will never be written."

Diary of a Bad Year (188) ]]> 2017-07-09 22:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178344976 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178345032 "...if I am into something, I am wholly in, but if it doesn't work out, I put it behind me, it is finished, it doesn't exist anymore. That way I remain positive, that way I can look to the future."

Diary of a Bad Year (213)]]> 2017-07-09 22:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178345032 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178345121 "The nature of water [...] is to flow. For water to be puzzled, to hesitate even for an instant, would be against its nature.

Intuitively one thinks of five as a devouring force. [....] The more a fire devours, the bigger it gets; the bigger it gets, the more its appetite grows; the more its appetite grows, the more it devours. All that refuses to be devoured by fire is water."

Diary of a Bad Year (215)]]> 2017-07-09 22:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178345121 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347319 "Why don't you kiss me? I don't bite."

Ginger, Zami (136)]]> 2017-07-10 00:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347319 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347369 "[She] was my friend, the only friend I had made in this strange town, and I loved her, but with caution. We had slept together. Did that mean we were lovers?" 

Zami (140)]]> 2017-07-10 00:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347369 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347412 "I sat on the edge of my bed, wanting to put my arms around[her], to let the tenderness and love I felt burn away the sad casing around her and speak to her need through the touch of my hands and my mouth and my body that defined my own." 

Zami (165)]]> 2017-07-10 00:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347412 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347445 "I could smell her like the sharp breath of wildflowers." 

Zami (167)]]> 2017-07-10 00:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347445 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347476 "Shifting slightly, [she] reached past my head toward the lamp above us. I caught her wrist. Her bones felt like velvet and quicksilver between my tingling fingers.

"No,"I whispered against the hollow of her ear. "In the light.""

Zami (167-168)]]> 2017-07-10 00:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/178347476 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/186104914 "Having's wrong; sharing's right. What more can you share than your whole self, your whole life, all the nights and all the days?"

Gimar, The Dispossessed (50) ]]> 2017-09-09 20:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/186104914 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/186105515 "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Never let yourself be owned."

Vokep, The Dispossessed (54) ]]> 2017-09-09 20:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/186105515 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193218165 "All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?"

Shevek, The Dispossessed (190)]]> 2017-10-02 21:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193218165 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193584328 "The unconscious mind is coexistent with the universe." 

The Dispossessed (222)]]> 2017-10-03 18:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193584328 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193631928 "There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." 

Bedap, The Dispossessed (249)]]> 2017-10-03 19:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/193631928 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/194147234 "If you evade suffering you also evade the chance at joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home." 

The Dispossessed (334)]]> 2017-10-05 04:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/194147234 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/199769523 "Less light! and the truth becomes more evident." 

When I Was Miss Dow, Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts (77)]]> 2017-10-23 19:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/199769523 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223636319 "This year I learned that cities are beautiful from rooftops even when you're sad and that swimming in rivers while the sun sets in July will make you feel hopeful, no matter what's going on at home. I found out my best friend is strong enough to swing me over his shoulder like I'm weightless and run down the street while I'm squealing and kicking against his chest. I found out vegan rice milk whipped cream is delicious, especially when it's licked off the stomach of a boy you love."

– "This year," Mouthful of Forevers]]> 2018-01-23 05:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223636319 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223636867 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Lilith's Brood: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Neuromancer by William Gibson]]> 2018-01-23 05:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223636867 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223637022 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The City & The City by China Miéville
Dracula by Bram Stoker
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Experimental Film by Gemma Files]]> 2018-01-23 05:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223637022 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223638086 I. 
When I was trying 
to quit smoking 
and we drank white wine
from Mason jars, 
you called my freckles 
cocoa powder 
and I called your green eyes 
celery.

– "All That's Left to Tell," Mouthful of Forevers]]> 2018-01-23 05:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223638086 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223639224 "...eat mist and guilt until we are but dreams."

– salt.]]> 2018-01-23 05:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223639224 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223639442 'i love myself.' 
the 
quietest. 
simplest.
most 
powerful. 
revolution. 
ever. 

– ism, salt.]]> 2018-01-23 05:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223639442 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223641281 I hope you look out your window and remember 
that my name will forever live in the stars. 

– Moonlight, Flux]]> 2018-01-23 05:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223641281 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223643217 "...maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky." 

– The Grim Alternatives, I Wrote This For You]]> 2018-01-23 06:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223643217 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223643332 "You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list." 

– The Envy of Wishes, I Wrote This For You]]> 2018-01-23 06:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223643332 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646066 "Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware. 

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair 
And I eat men like air. 

– Lady Lazarus, Ariel]]> 2018-01-23 06:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646066 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646261 "...What would the dark
Do without fevers to eat?" 

– The Jailor, Ariel]]> 2018-01-23 06:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646261 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646355 "I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets." 

– Elm, Ariel]]> 2018-01-23 06:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646355 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646479 "We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you." 

– Lesbos, Ariel]]> 2018-01-23 06:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/223646479 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/225091012 "He breathes deeply and becomes a fixture of the earth. They tread upon the filaments of his nerves' their voices stir the fine hairs of his skin; their breaths ripple the air he draws into his lungs. They are on him. They are in him.

But he knows that he is not, and will never be, one of them."

The Fifth Season (4)]]> 2018-01-26 15:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/225091012 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/225202612 “There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

The Fifth Season (5)]]> 2018-01-26 19:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/225202612 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/230228423 "I always wanted to live where I could watch foreign trains." 

The City & The City (40)]]> 2018-02-09 23:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/230228423 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439112 "we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged in mist. We are unsubstantial territory."

BernardThe Waves (9) ]]> 2018-06-10 00:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439112 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439135 "Those are white words, like stones one picks up by the seashore." 

Susan, The Waves (13) ]]> 2018-06-10 00:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439135 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439160 "Everybody seems to be doing things for this moment only; and never again. Never again. The urgency of it all is fearful." 

Bernard, The Waves (19) ]]> 2018-06-10 00:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439160 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439189 "There is no crudity here, no sudden kisses." 

Louis, The Waves (23)]]> 2018-06-10 00:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439189 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439210 "I, who shall walk the earth these seventy years, am born entire, out of hatred, out of discord." 

Louis, The Waves (26)]]> 2018-06-10 00:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439210 frecklepaint https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439267 [left off p.30 , The Waves )]]> 2018-06-10 00:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/frecklepaint/quotes/wish/266439267