“Those with the most to lose must walk farthest from trouble. Wisdom lies not in fear, but in protecting what truly matters.”
“There has to be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“She took the cognac and disappeared into her corner of a kitchen. 'Make yourself comfortable,' she shouted out to me. 'Take off your shoes. Take off your socks. Look at my books—I often wonder what I'd do if there wren't any books in the world.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“Oh, you were scared silly," said Beatty, "for I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books
you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think
they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in
the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“You weren't there, you didn't see,' he said. ' There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a sea of failed intentions, broken promises, and aborted wishes”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel