![]() For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a ![]() More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Julian Barnes, quote from Flaubert's Parrotīy Tamara Ireland Stone About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, This search is a sign of love, I maintain.” That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. Sometimes you find the panel but it doesn’t open sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. She didn’t ever search for that sliding panel which opens the secret chamber of the heart, the chamber where the memory and corpses are kept. She was fond of me - she would automatically agree, as if the matter weren’t worth of discussing, that she loved me - but she unquestioningly believed the best about me. ![]() ![]() I never provoked her I was cautious and defensive, as is my habit I didn’t even ask questions but I wanted to know the worst. “What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love’s favourite perversion? … I loved Ellen, and i wanted to know the worst. ![]()
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