/lit/ - Literature

I saw this quote today I don't know who or what it's from though I rather like it.

"It isn’t really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance."

"But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all." -Louis Sachar

"It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." -Dale Carnegie

"Father Barnaby mounted the rostrum and, beholding the wedding’s congregation with open arms, began to speak:"

inb4nottechnicallyasentence

From a poem I wrote:
Hard as I try, I fail to
see,
Fail to see your face in the
sands.

>>416771
>Hard as I try, I fail
Should have just stopped there

"Time is fluid here," said the demon.

- Neil Gaiman

>>416774
I loled

It’s like those days when one song you’ve listened to hundreds of times hits you just right, at that moment when the planets align and your chest doesn’t move because you can’t remember to take a breath. The moment it all comes together and seems so poignant, so exact, important and never has a song been more powerful and immense even though you’ve been singing along to it consistently for sixteen years. Yeah, its like that.

Like if you could squeeze your eyelids together hard enough you could transfer you soul into that song and you wouldn’t have to worry about bills or beef or responsibility or holidays or eating spoiled food. Like the half awake zombie state after a long day of work where your feet feel strangely warm and comfortable and you know if you kept your eyes closed longer than ten seconds you would be asleep. It’s a magic time that is impossible to predict. That is impossible to improve upon. That is impossible to reach. But it’s a moment that you wish you could live forever inside." -Christopher Gutierrez

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

"No John, you are the demons."

"Years had passed since Toby Dammit had broken Charlotte's heart when he lost his head, but she still remembered the little prick."

(My unfinished stab at Poe-porn fanfic.)

"Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzed them into staying lost in the area that’s just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it’s less scary than seeing something different than what’s presently in front of them." -Jill Davis, Ask Again Later

>"No John, you are the demons."

"Enthusiastic people are the ones who actually get things done in this world. Enthusiasm is what turns any idea into reality. And enthusiasm is linked closely with happiness." -Roy Sheppard

"May we die in the forest"
"They told me I could be anything I wanted, so I became a god"

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees-just as things grow fast in movies-I had that familar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -The Great Gatsby

"We each owe a death — there are no exceptions, I know that — but, sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile seems so long."

>>416847
>"They told me I could be anything I wanted, so I became a god"

sauce?

>>416865
this is where i got it from. damn good writing.

"The inside of his face drips down the left side of mine."

Was in a zombie story I wrote:

http://peacock-king.infernalshenanigans.com/node/280

War is the only cure for peace.

"You know nothing, Jon Snow"

"You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back." -William Tammeus

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I googled that quote and was embarrassed to find this out

"Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe . . . an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast . . . would you do it? Without question?"
"Without question? No." The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. "I'd ask how much."

"Then who was phone?"

"I may still not know what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that someday I want to live in a house filled with my books and travel souvenirs. And the walls that aren't covered in bookshelves will be covered with photos of my family and friends. When I leave the house I will be going to a job I love, and I'll return to a person I love. So, that's the dream I'm working on." -Amber Morely

There are no meds for assholism.

"It's surprising how many persons get through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves. And if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

"When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel

"I have no dreams to throw away. After graduating middle school, I no longer dream. I don't dream because I'm an electric sheep." Kumeta

"Q: What would you like to have for your "last supper"?

K: My dead mother's home made cooking. She's still alive though."

I love this man and his unlimited despair.

>>416884
god damn it george rr martin, quit lurking lit and finish a dance with dragons.

"The stomach-turning description of the “white spots, the nature of which he could not understand (90)” sends an identical chill down the reader's spine as though some personal, private wound had been probed, bringing to mind disease, rot, and parasites."

Aw, yess.

"Understanding and appreciation; fulfillment."

And I'm sure some of you actually wonder why you haven't had anything published yet. lawl.

The day began, as so many did in those days, with an astronomically large ball of perpetual fire scattering the shadows of the earth's nooks and crannies, followed quickly by the insistent clamor of my fucking alarm clock.

I shall die of an unwashed grape. -Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire"

"but Arizona is once more born into rest stops for the old, blowjobs for the young and hugs for the middle-aged because their sad bodies need holding and thought."

"Despite the different colours of our uniforms, we should work together to achieve our mutual goals."

Myself.

>>417152

I read that, shed a tear, laid aside my baseball bat, and decided not to go out paki bashing tonight.

Thank you anon.

Are you lost, little boy?
Fuck, I hope so.

"For Sale: Baby Shoes, never worn."

>>417161

that man is a literary minotaur

it puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose again

long whip like arms wielded a nightmare assortment of arcane surgical equipment

I did the only thing I could think of. I yelled her name across the street, stretching a long bridge made of labels across the pit. She turned, and I saw she was crying. I had broken her.

If only... A man's last wish cut short by sni

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
- Me

>>417193

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, you get OFF /lit/ this instant

OP is back with some more sweet sentences.
This is a little silly, but I kind of dig it,

"The crowd then swarmed our front door, pounding and punching, parading Prometheus' bright pink present as a reminder of their 'power', their 'genius.'

"These are my letters to the world which never wrote to me" By Harold Lauder in The Stand

My mother is a fish.

>>417376
to many P wordss goddamn

>>417405
yes that is the silliness

>>417152
>"Despite the different colours of our uniforms, we should work together to achieve our mutual goals."

"Faster than the speed of love",
by Brian Griffin.

"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts." -Shirley Chisholm

"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."

"The only breaks I get are broken bones."

My favorite line from a recent poem I wrote/am writing.

>>417152
THIS SOUNDS LIKE FUCKING RETAIL MANAGER SPEAK GODDAMN

"The mind is a monkey."
Stephen King.
I don't know why but I just love it.

"The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. “Look at that,” she whispered, and then after a moment: “I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." -The Great Gatsby

Wow, I cringed while reading about 80% of these.
Stop trying so hard, /lit/.

-Me

wat

I used to come on this board and wonder why everyone bitched about excellent works, and now, reading the things you've written......

I understand.

>>417561
That is so random xD

"It was a life."

- Clive Barker's Cabal

"What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it." -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Now this is inessential to understanding the story, nor does it set the scene or have any deeper meaning. But while this conversation was occurring between my two friends two dogs behind them ran head first into each other."

Can't remember the book

"There are many, many people who have the potential for an amazing story inside them and many of those people realize this an aspire to be writers, artists or filmmakers. But still many of these stories are never told, they just don't have the ability and faith to see the story to the end and not giving up, this is what makes someone a good writer. I am not a good writer, however."

Opening to a short story I had to read in school once

"OP is a faggot"
-anon

>Come into thread
>Read OP
>Not a sentence

>Starfish painted on eskimo cheeks of broken capillaries, lighting up the frozen silhouette of an otherwise hopeless fellow.
>fragment

"Everyone knows the price of something, and the value of nothing."

Picture of Dorian Gray

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"Have you ever heard the sound of levees breaking in the dark?"

"Of all the non-euclidian things that inhabit the shadows, in the age we live in, fear is present not in shadows, but in the light of science, that reveals a future so dark it can hardly be taken as anything else but a nightmare for any educated man, who isn't blinded by the fold of optimism."

>>417924

wut

Starfish = subject
painted = verb

It's totally not a fragment.

For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world...For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

Camus

>>418587

Learn to comma better.

Not favorites, but ones I like.

“I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.” - Not mine.


"I've seen a generation of these boys spilled open, and I know what they are made of."
"We’re off the map, and into the crooked place. But we’re together." - two (three, really) of mine

"Ylajali!"

They often went to the same group therapy sessions, in a car pool with a photographer from Palo Alto who thought he was a volleyball.

"I grow impatient at the length of your exordium."
- The Republic, Plato

"No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid" - THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY

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>>418710
fuck yea hunger is so good.

ITT: Books you only read because of movies or video games. I'll go first: The Man Who Was Thursday, because of Deus Ex.