“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

-Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

Giga13 says

of course blew as in bad

>as opposed to blew as in it was the best thing i ever read

:) I'll agree I didn't like how it ended but there were some tense scenes. I wouldn't have minded a more cheesy ending like Sohrab finding a new friend in America and something like the alleyway incident occurs again but this time Sohrab helps.

of course blew as in bad lol

as opposed to: blew as in it was the best thing i ever read

Giga13 says

Shamzy says

"That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

The ending of that book blew

blew as in bad?

Shamzy says

"That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

The ending of that book blew

"That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it." - Flannery O' Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find

The child turned her head quickly, and past the Negroes' ambling figures she could see the column of smoke rising and widening unchecked inside the granite line of trees. She stood taut, listening, and could just catch in the distance a few wild high shrieks of joy as if the prophets were dancing in the fiery furnace, in the circle the angel had cleared for them. - Flannery O' Connor, A Circle in The Fire

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

"I have to return some video tapes."

- Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

"The things I could do to you with a coat hanger."

- Patrick Bateman, American Psycho


"Knotted inside the snake, you can see corn and peanuts. You can see a long bright-orange ball. It's the kind of horse-pill vitamin my Dad makes me take, to help put on weight. To get a football scholarship. With extra iron and omega-three fatty acids.

It's seeing that vitamin pill that saves my life.

It's not a snake. It's my large intestine, my colon pulled out of me. What doctors call, prolapsed. It's my guts sucked into the drain."

- Chuck Palahniuk

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist


“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"snape killed dumbledore"

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

The Lord of the Rings

I believe Morrie actually stated that to Mitch, though

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?”
-19 Minutes

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.”

That was from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury


Also, one of the best books I've ever read, and one of the most inspirational heart-jerkers I've ever read, was Tuesdays with Morrie

It was an incredible read

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

Alice in Wonderland

"He loved Big Brother"

Why don't people think that 1984 is a sad book? 1984 is heartbreaking.

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”

"For Beatrice- Summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter is even colder"


I read all of The Series of Unfortunate Events books as a third grader and as an adult now realize that the dedication at the beginning of each book is by far the most beautiful part of each and every book.