But I Felt A Rush Of Fondness For Her, So Sudden And So Simple It Made Me Smile.

But I felt a rush of fondness for her, so sudden and so simple it made me smile.

Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger (via wholesomeobsessive)

Yea, all the wealth that our fore-fathers hid Within the messy entrails of the earth;

Cornelius, Dr. Faustus, Act 1 scene 1 (via wholesomeobsessive)

And he’s a mumbler, a swallower of words.  Despite spending the last six years in a perfectly nice part of Berkshire, he speaks in a bored cockney drawl because God forbid anyone should think his father has done well or worked hard, God forbid anyone should think that he’s comfortable and cared for and loved, loved equally by both his parents even if he only seems to desire and require the attentions of one. In short, my son makes me feel like his step-father. I have had some experience of unrequited love in the past and that was no picnic, I can tell you.  But the unrequited love of one’s only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn.

Us by David Nicholls (via wholesomeobsessive)

If he called a cab he’d be home in a half hour, but he liked being outside in the clean air, away from other people. The snow was falling faster now. He felt extravagantly, guiltily alive.

-Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

It just occurred to me that people who haven’t read the book don’t know about this amazing analogy