Ectonville Quotes & Sayings

A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density. — Sergio Chejfec

Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others — Leonard Cohen

Technique is the test of sincerity. — Ezra Pound

... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown — Herman Melville

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere. — Michael Phelps

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nero lowered his head to speak in her ear, keeping his hands on her arms to lock her in place. "My problem is simple, Elle. I have a problem with you having no trouble saying thank you to someone else. I have a problem with you wrapping your arms around someone else. And I have a big fucking problem with you not minding kissing someone else. Not one fucking time have you done any of those things to me without my asking, or just doing it because you want to, not because I want you to. — Sarah Brianne

So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them. There — Emma Cline