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“The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt”
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“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”
Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin
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“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”
Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press
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“I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.”
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“I'll always go back to the stage.”
Source : "Mouse Confusion". Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 19, 1997.
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“While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.”
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“How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you... You always loved me!" Roxanne”
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“There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.”
Source : Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.110, The Overlook Press
