/lit/ - Literature

>And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

>I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

>A quotation without a source is shit
-- Me, 4chan's shitty excuse for a literature board

>>7194716
>This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart
Kafka's Journal - November 2, 1911

>>7194859
>Please spoonfeed me because I don't know how to use google.
-Me, making fun of an elitist newfriend.

>>7194874
It's not spoonfeeding, it is having respect for the works and authors you are quoting.

>One alien is a curiosity. Two are an invasion.

>>7194780
This so much. If i were 20% more pleb i'll have it tatooed on my arm.

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

>>7194716
He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have lead to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

>Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits -- and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

>She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.


>tfw you will never be humbert humbert

gurl was walkin2 skewl wit her bf n they were crossin da rode.

she sed "bbz will u luv me 4evr"

he said "NO.."
...
da gurl cryed N ran across da rode b4 da green man came on the sine.

boy was cryin and went to pic up her body.

she was ded.

he whispered 2 her corpse "I ment 2 sey i will luv u FIVE-ever..." (dat mean he luv her moar den 4evr)

>>7195130
>not crying evrytiem

>>7195100
This brings tears to my eyes. Tolstoy was based as fuck.

>They say that not even Heracles could fight two people.
>Then call on me as your Iolaus, as long as the daylight lasts.

Never thought Plato would make me cry.

>Did you experience your father's death in your absence? Did you see the woman you loved hold out her hand to your rival, while you were croaking in the depths of the abyss?

>You were the sunshine of Rome and without you the skies are grey

>Woe betide those who had me shut up in that awful place and those who forgot that I was imprisoned there

Absolutely based Count of Monte Cristo

>He did not like to say to even himself that she was no longer beautiful, but he knew that it was no longer the face for which Michael Furey braved death.
Joyce
best I could do from memory, might have a few words off.

>>7194716
>as if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

>She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.
>you will never read books 4-10 in your life
I fucking cried when I realized it was supposed to be a ten book series

>>7194780
>>7194847
I feel no feels at all for this shit ... I think I am a worthless, subhuman, robotic automaton. OR, I suspect this shit is worthless without context.

>>7195896
Book one will always be the best for me because Lisbeth and Blomkvist had a cool thing going. Books 2 and 3 would have made a great interlude for their eventually resumed partnership (professional and romantic), but they fucking sucked as a conclusion.

I will forever feel robbed of the rest of their story, but have to admit that, however painful it may be, those closing lines are beautiful and will allow us to imagine their story forever.

>>7195086
That just sounds overly melodramatic to me. It's a valid point, but could be made in a way shorter and easier statement.

Easy pleasures come cheap.

>He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant. Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.


Nothing beats Joyce when Joyce wasn't being a pretentious cunt and hiding his talent in convoluted gibberish.

>>7195902
I just want Gabrielsson to write the 4th book

>>7195100
which book is this from

>>7195203
Nice