Sunday, September 22, 2013

It's unfortunate, but there it is

"'We don't run much to looks in my family, you know, all knuckles and cheekbones and beaky noses,' he said. 'Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.'"

--Francis in The Secret History by Donna Tart

Friday, September 13, 2013

Cormac Mccarthy, Suttree

"Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm."