nyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyan:
“They marry when they are six months of age and beget children when they are two or three years old and generally they do not live beyond six or seven years: and those who live eight years are considered ancient.”
…Oh dear!
Ginzburg - ‘The Cheese and the Worms’
“The way he looked was the problem.” - Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
oh boy.
“in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the eyes of all who are born at the seaside and forced to depart from it.”- Confessions of a Mask- Yukio Mishima
First time that I did this and it didn’t imply I would be masturbating all this year!
“You said it, bub, but like a lot of other people, you don’t even know”
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
hehe
“To indicate a possessive relationship, the particle 的 appears between the ‘possessor’ and the ‘possessed.’”
- My Chinese textbook. Sounds kinky! I’m actually surprised how well this fits the prompt, given it’s discussing grammar.
“Don’t frighten him Mexico, this isn’t Kenya or something, we need him as close to normative, you know, as possible”
-Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon. wat.
“They must keep having babies, because the feminine mystique says there is no other way for a woman to be a heroine.”
-Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
lol
(Source: loveclaire)