Monice Tobi > Monice's Quotes

“She was born to be the adored of poets”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.”
― Emily Brontë

“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I’m like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: “Look! I have no hands!” But the people all around me say: “What are hands?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace