Possession
A.S. Byatt
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
“What is it my dear?" Ah, how can we bear it?" Bear what?" This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?" We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world." And every day we shall have less. And then none." Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?" No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
“Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.”
“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”
“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”
“Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss”
“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
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Book Keywords:
reading, words, letters, peace, writing, introversion, passionate-love, connections, solitude
