I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
— Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
— Thom Yorke
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Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and wither - I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
— Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she’d done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
— Denis Johnson
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
— Oscar Wilde
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
— Alexander Pope
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
— Thirst for Love, Yukio Mishima
