"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concern’d in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:— Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world (...)"

Laurence Sterne in the opening of his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

"They were not holding hands, but their shadows were"

Beloved, Toni Morrison

"(...) the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay."

Beloved, Toni Morrison

"Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end."

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

You might think that you have a good english... then Faulkner happens and you see how little you know and understand.

For the last 7 days I had to read, analyze, write about, expose about and discuss, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, in American Literature class (yes, just 7 f****g days per novel, reading and writing every day including Sundays) and I can say 3 things:
1) I'm exhausted
2) Faulkner is SO DAMN COMPLICATED and AMAZING!!!
and
3) I don't have the level for this class but I'm gonna make it somehow.

Since we are in the subject, this is a quote from the book. Not THE quote, just one I was passing by right now:

"(...) I would think how words go straight up in a thin, line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and can not have until they forget the words."

And the word of the day is:

Voicelessness.
I love the way it sounds on a southern accent.

"I am very prowd, reuengefull, Ambitious, with more offences at my becke, then I haue thoughts to put them in imagination, to giue them shape, or time to acte them in."

Hamlet, William Shakespeare