#literatureedit

jane austen pride and prejudice / julio cortázar hopscotch / sylvia plath the unabridged journals / unknown / madeline miller the song of achilles / jack kerouac the dharma bums / richard siken "crush" / walt whitman "when i heard at the close of the day" / james baldwin giovanni's room / hermann hesse narziss and goldmund

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

Paul swallowed. The figure in front of him turned into the moon's path and he saw an elfin face, black pits of eyes. The familiarity of that face, the features out of numberless visions in his earliest prescience, shocked Paul to stillness. He remembered the angry bravado with which he had once described this face-from-a-dream, telling the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: "I will meet her." And here was the face, but in no meeting he had ever dreamed.

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"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."