Friday, February 15, 2008

interior rules


...for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires...

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thursday, February 14, 2008

hopelessly I should add


All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh...

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov