Ignorant Historian

“Don’t laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragical romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God’s sight.” – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, p. 526

“You can be anything you want to be, his parents told him, but they lie.d  Truth was, an enormous breach existed between one’s ambitions and one’s reality.” – 31 hours by Masha Hamilton, p. 59

“Destroy grammasites with extreme prejudice — and shun any men with amorous intentions.” – Miss Havisham in Well of Losts Plots by Jasper Fforde, p. 187

“But if unhappiness were a genuine reason for suicide, half the women in Turkey would be killing themselves.” – deputy governor in Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 14

“It can’t be easy being an amalgamation of all that has been written before.” – Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde, p. 46

“But now, because we’ve fallen under the spell of the West, we’ve forgotten our own stories.” – Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 78

“I don’t want to be alone on this planet they call earth.” – “Taking Chances” as sung by the Glee cast

“At times like these he had felt most guilty; all he’d wanted was to forget about Turkey and everything and go home and read books.” – Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 175

“Most of them were too unhappy to sleep; they took pleasure in knowing that the cigarettes they smoked were killing them; they began sentences, only to let their voices trail off as they remembered how pointless it was to carry on; they watched television not because they liked or enjoyed the programs but because they couldn’t bear to hear about their fellows’ depression, and television helped to shut them out; what they really wanted was to die, but they didn’t think themselves worthy of suicide.” – Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 194-195 [sorry for 2 quotes about suicide...it's a theme in Snow, not in my thoughts]

“Still, whenever she awakened in the wee hours, she wanted nothing more than to breathe in time with another human body — a desire that pointed to a primitive quality in her, she thought, one not suited to this modern life.” – 31 Hours by Masha Hamilton, p. 1-2

“Don’t worry.  Love that blooms this fast is just as fast to wither.” - Ipek in Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 211

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