Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
If we’re to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face—love vanishes.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
‘You must think me mad,’ she said, ‘to still love a boy I last saw ten years ago. But it doesn’t make any difference, not to me.’ ‘No,’ said Thomas. ‘Distance separates you from him, and if the units of distance were miles and not years, nobody would think it strange
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
“Well, I cannot understand it.” “That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Jane Austen • Emma
But being around Dov made her feel impatient with her twenty-year-old brain and the quality of its ideas.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
She had watched her mother stick out her own marriage, and that path wasn’t for Julia.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
You have liked many a stupider person.”
Jane Austen • Pride and Prejudice
They were sitting, this evening, on either side of Charles Holmes, who was an Englishman, and who, from shyness, talked and listened with a habitual vagueness, glancing at Dora, his wife, sitting opposite.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
‘Have you ever met one with the charms who had not the strangeness? It comes with the gift. You can’t be expecting one who knows the things she does to be taking part in your almighty cackle every morning at the well. If you’re looking for a friend without fault, you’ll be looking for a friend forever.’