"She held a trembling hand out to K. and made him sit down beside her, she spoke with an effort, it was an effort to understand her, but what she said"

— Franz Kafka, from The Castle, translated by J. A. Underwood (thanks, sophiafaithwillow)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

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"This game is seven-card stud."

— Tennessee Williams, from A Streetcar Named Desire (thanks, readinglts)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

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"

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding — which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together — blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work.

When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author, from the swarm of termites that tried to destroy his notes, to the large boulder that someone rolled onto the illustrator as he sat by the edge of the pond waiting for the delivery of the manuscript.

"

— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (via acomicaday)

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"Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go."

— Emily Brontë, from “The night is darkening round me” (via the-final-sentence)

(Source: blogut)

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"These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill."

— Sylvia Plath, from ”Elm” (thank you, grimalkine)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

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"Sorry we are, too, when a child dies:
But at the immolation of a race, who cries?"

— John Blight, from “Death of a Whale” (via the-final-sentence)

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"[In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature.] She found what she had been searching for."

— Carl Sagan, Contact (thank you, isadorathegreat)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

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"When we reach the city."

— Ray Bradbury, from Fahrenheit 451 (thanks, sparkingyourinterest)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

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