{Tour} Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski (with his Top 10 Bookish Quotes + Giveaway)

“I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.”

The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker.

“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”

The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Fran Lebowitz.

“People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin.

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.

“I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government. This was because he appeared to serve no purpose.”

Family Life, Akhil Sharma.

“She bought a chocolate bar and it tasted surprisingly good – as if, without her knowing it, sitting here and eating this chocolate was the one thing she had wanted to do all day.”

The Easter Parade , Richard Yates.

“If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there.”

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.

“Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different, but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera.

“I want—I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that—categories like that—won’t exist. Where we shall simply be two human beings who love each other, who are the whole life to each other, and nothing else on earth will matter.”
She drew a deep sigh that ended in another laugh. “Oh, my dear—where is that country? Have you ever been there?”

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton.

“…see how
it’s a breeze to be with your
whole family, to be the porch
they all sit on after dinner
and cake, with mugs in their hands
and wine in their mugs, and how they
life their noses into the wind
and sniff and look
to see if you are there, if you are going
to do what you promised to do.
if you are going to love and call them
sometimes and tell them you love them.”

Walking The Dogs¸ Matthew Dickman