“
Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
”
”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)
“
Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than any constellation in the sky?
”
”
Jay Kristoff (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I’m in literature heaven.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.
Until all that's left is us
”
”
Amie Kaufman (These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1))
“
We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.
”
”
Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1))
“
We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Can't help who you fall in love with, princess.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
It's amazing", he whispered, "to know that my purpose in life is sitting in front of me.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
What did I tell you, son?” he says, looking at Asher. “When it happens – BOOM!” He makes a motion with his hands of an explosion
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
Not everyone can be a fairy-tale hero.” He pauses a moment, then adds, “The world needs villains too.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Who were you before people started telling you who you should be?
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
I don't want a knight in shining armor.
I don't want a knight in scuffed armor.
I want his helmet to have dents. I want my knight to be real, and dark and savage. I want my knight to be a survivor. Someone who's been tested and got through his trails. Not some pussy in gleaming metal.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Love is love. It don’t discriminate. And it sure as fuck don’t wait ‘til you’re ready for it.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
So we can be friends, right?”
Wait, what?
I stare at her, a frown forming at my mouth.
Did I..? Did I just get Friend-zoned?
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
Some days are just hard and you want to go asleep and wake up a week from now knowing the problem is gone. Everyone feels like that once in a while.
Life can be overwhelming.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
Who wants to be normal when you can be interesting instead?
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
A strong woman can also be submissive in bed. It doesn’t make her weak. It makes her stronger than most. Putting your body into the hands of someone else…that takes balls.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Aurora?”
“Logan?”
He poked his head in and gawked. “He handcuffed you?”
“Nah, it’s my latest fashion statement.
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
You're it. The one. The start. The finish. You are how my story ends.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
”
”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)
“
Sometimes good people have to do bad things. It’s nothing personal. It’s just life,
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Fuck off, Beyoncé. There’s no such thing as angels. No one wears a halo. And if they do it’s only to disguise the pointed horns that sit atop their heads.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
Walking away, I mentally hear glass cracking under my feet because I step right over my shattered heart.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
As usual, when she has her Kindle in her hand, the world could crumble around her and she wouldn't have a clue.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Trevor (Until, #2))
“
Love is a drop in the ocean of what I feel for her. Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle #2))
“
But they have not seen their sun die. Their people burn. Their world end. And they do not know, yet, that there are some breaks that cannot be fixed.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
She owned who she was and accepted it. Then she went on and conquered the world.
”
”
Starlight (Aurora)
“
You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.
”
”
Cora Carmack (Roar (Stormheart, #1))
“
I’d wait forever for you, Aurora.
”
”
Hannah Grace (Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2))
“
You remember what you said this morning? About it being totally stupid to fall in love with me?"
At that, my eyes open. He adds quietly, "Then you should start calling me a fuckin' moron.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
You said you’d never leave me. And I’m holding you to that. Because when you’re safe again, I’m coming for you, Angel.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
There is no love in violence
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
He chuckles and says, "Finally. More than friends." I put on the most serious face I can muster and offer, "yeah, more than friends...Best friends forever!
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find ‘em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says “Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you. And I didn’t even know it.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Most content People don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they've got.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Every girl wants a bad boy who is only good to her
”
”
Belle Aurora (Love Thy Neighbour (Friend-Zoned, #2))
“
The mere sight of her is water in an endless desert.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Tomorrow is worth a million yesterdays.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Just because you're not saying it doesn't mean you're not thinking it.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Don’t push me, little girl. You don’t wanna see my bad side.”
I blink a second before my eyes widen and i lean back from him as I whisper hiss, “This is your good side?
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
You can push a person to change, but the only time the change will stick is when it's something they want to achive on their own.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Aurora.” I looked at him over my shoulder. His jaw was tight again. The lines across his forehead were back too. “You look beautiful,” Mr. Rhodes said in that careful, somber voice a heartbeat later. “He’s an idiot for looking at anyone else.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (All Rhodes Lead Here)
“
Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!
”
”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)
“
Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Love Thy Neighbour (Friend-Zoned, #2))
“
They say penguins mate for life.” He reached up again and jerked hard at his tie. “And I want to be your penguin.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Lev (Shot Callers, #1))
“
I will see you in the stars.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3))
“
Having you wrapped around me all night, feeling you coming around my fingers, now wrapped in a towel and knowing what’s under that shit and not being able to do a damn thing about it is my worst fucking nightmare.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
Well, that’s that. Goodbye cruel world. Be sure to fuck thyself on the way out, you mean-assed son of a whore.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Stupid movies and their completely inaccurate argument scenes.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
You know that thing that people have that tells them they’re doing something wrong or pushing too far?
Yeah. I don’t have one of those.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
When he tears his mouth from mine, he moves his lips near my ear and whispers, “You’re mine. Every inch of you belongs to me. From your sweet mouth to your even sweeter pussy and when I want it, you better give it to me.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
I stretched out my hand, adrenaline and pain giving me plenty of fuel for the magic, and called, 'Ventas servitas!' Wind leapt out in a sudden spurt, seizing the Unraveling and tearing it from Aurora's fingers, sending it spinning through the air toward me. I caught it, stuck my tongue out at Aurora, yelled, 'Meep, meep!' and ran like hell.
”
”
Jim Butcher (Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4))
“
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I’ve always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Trevor (Until, #2))
“
What does the name you call me mean?" I ask.
"Be'shmai?" he replies. "There . . . there is no adequate human word for it."
"What about inadequate words, then?"
His answer is very soft.
"Beloved.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Um, sir?” Finian de Seel says. “We might have a problem.” “You mean aside from you interrupting my speech? Because I’d been practicing it in my head for an hour and it was gonna be great.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden, #5))
“
I think I'd like to be unconscious again, please.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Owe ye everything, son. Ye need or want anything, ye just ask."
Nox earns a point in my dad's book when he utters, "I'm quite partial to your daughter, actually. I was kinda hoping I could keep her.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Lilly (Until, #3))
“
I’m not ashamed of who you are. And the only time I would look down on you is if I were helping you back up.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Lev (Shot Callers, #1))
“
You feeling uncomfortable?” I immediately nod. Squeezing my ass once more, he places his lips at the shell of my ear. “Good. Get used to it. Because I’m going to do bad things to you.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
Standing face to face with a still pissed Nox, I find myself getting pissed, too. Nox just has that effect on me. I swear this guy must’ve been conceived through back door action. There’s no way being that much of an asshole is natural.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
The sound of her name is like music.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
You are mine, November. Until the day you leave this earth, you are mine.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
Kissing her once more, I tell her without hesitation, "if you promise to never leave me, I will love you. And be good to you. I'll treat you like a queen." My queen. I heard somewhere that a king only bows down to his queen. And I'm bowing down to Lexi.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?"
"Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat.
"Almost stolen," Gracious corrected.
"Semi-stolen," said Donegan.
"Quasi-stolen," said Gracious.
Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?"
Donegan and Gracious hesitated.
"Yes," they both said together.
”
”
Derek Landy (The Maleficent Seven (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7.5))
“
The thing I was raised to be is acutely aware of how easy it would be to reach out and break this human boy. But the man I try to be keeps his arms folded instead.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
Badass with a hint of lady.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
I love you. Don't ever doubt that you're the best thing that has ever happened to me.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Trevor (Until, #2))
“
My arms around her waist tightened a little. I never wanted to let go. “I don’t know what love is,” I started quietly. “But if I could love anyone…” I pressed a gentle kiss behind her ear, pulling her close. “I would love you. Very much.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Lev (Shot Callers, #1))
“
I never realized how much I hate my life. Not until he showed me beautiful.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Do you love me?”
Without hesitation, he answers, “More than anything in my life.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
You need to kiss me. All night you slept cuddled into me. You can’t do that to a man without at least kissing him.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until November (Until, #1))
“
Her voice was so melancholy that Gansey was struck all at once by what he and Blue really lost by keeping their relationship a secret. Blue radiated psychic energy for others, but touch was where she gained hers back. She was always hugging her mother or holding Noah’s hand or linking her elbow in Adam’s or resting her boots on Ronan’s legs as they sat on the sofa. Touching Gansey’s neck just between his hair and his collar. This worry in her tone demanded fingers braided together, arms on shoulders, cheeks rested against chests.
But because Gansey was too cowardly to tell Adam about falling in love with her, she had to stand there with her sadness by herself.
Aurora took Blue’s hand.
”
”
Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
“
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden, #5))
“
Jesus. I love you so fucking much; you would think I was growing a vagina.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Trevor (Until, #2))
“
I don’t utter a word of complaint, because let’s face it, Nox doesn’t seem like a giver of fucks.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Hey,” his fingers went to my chin, lifting my eyes to his, “we can take this slowly.” “What is this?” I asked. His eyes went warm, making my pulse speed up. “This…is the beginning of us.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Lilly (Until, #3))
“
You know how when a guy and girl really like each other in a book, they talk about a spark between them? With Nox there is no spark. No. He bypassed the spark. When Nox touches me, there’s nothing less than the whistling, shrieking explosions of fireworks. Big ones. The ones they save till the end of the show.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
Words hold power. They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just the opposite, too
”
”
Belle Aurora (Willing Captive)
“
The world of books is still the world.
”
”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)
“
This is going to happen."
"What?" I ask, my eyebrows drawn together in confusion. His finger comes up and skims down the center of my face, forehead to chin.
"You and I, , we're going to happen.
”
”
Aurora Rose Reynolds (Until Trevor (Until, #2))
“
Ayden and Blake stared each other down.
"Oh. My. God," Luna blurted from Ayden's back seat. "It's a love triangle."
We all looked at her like she'd sprouted an alien from her head. "it's just like in a book. Two guys after one girl and-"
I groaned. "That's ridiculous, Luna, this is not a love triangle."
"Says the girl in the middle of a love triangle. Luna ignored my protests and prattled on. "Not one Hexy Boy but two. I've got to call Danica. Oooo," she squealed and clapped her hands,"We could have teams. Team Ayden and Team Blake. With T-shirt and buttons and-"
"I could make a website," Lucian offered.
"No!" My voice pitched with panic. "No teams. No shirts. No-"
"I'll get you some headshots," Blake said, turning his profile towards Luna and Lucian. "I've been told the left is my best side. What do you think?"
"Aurora's right," Ayden said. "This is buts. Blake you can follow us-"
"Dude, you know no one would pick Team Ayden. You're just jealous."
"That's not true. My team would be way bigger than yours."
"Dare to dream, little man, dare to dream."
"Care to make a wager on it?"
"Absolutely."
"Fine. How about-"
"You two shut up!" I shoved myself out of the car.
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.
But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.
To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.
What's your excuse?
”
”
Vera Nazarian (The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration)
“
The way he says my name like that, it’s not just a word or name, it’s a caress.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.
”
”
Jack London
“
You don't like stars?' I ask.
'No,' he says quietly, lacking his smirk for once, and staring at the floor. 'A lot of those stars actually died millions of years ago. It's just they're so far away, the light they created before they died hasn't finished reaching us yet.' He waves at the galaxy beyond the glass. 'You're looking at a sky full of ghosts.
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
I didn’t know Syldrathi blushed with their ears,” Tyler muses. “I am not blushing.” “I mean, it kinda looks like you’re blushing.” “I am not blushing.” “Ooookay,” Tyler nods. “I sometimes have that effect on people, is all.” “Is your request not to punch you still in effect, sir?
”
”
Amie Kaufman (Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1))
“
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden, #7))
“
Smite me? You think you can smite me? Do you even know what that means?
I shrugged. "What do you think it means?" I thought I'd gotten it right.
"Nothing," she cackled, "Absolutely nothing because you couldn't smite me even if you knew what it meant."
"Really? A minute ago you didn't think I could see you. How do you know what I can't do?"
That slowed her down.
"Trust me, if I can see you, I can smite you." - Aurora to Peaches
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
.« Nik has obviously spoken to Nat about my candy preferences.
Written in raspberry bullets is ‘I’m sorry’.
Written in green apple jellybeans is ‘I miss you’.
Written in cherry jellybeans is ‘I love you’.
My heart skips a beat at the last line.
Written in gummy bears is ‘Marry me’.
Did Nik just propose using candy?
Why, yes, brain. Yes, he did. »
”
”
Belle Aurora (Friend-Zoned (Friend-Zoned, #1))
“
I don’t want a knight in shining armor. I want a knight in scuffed armor. I want his helmet to have dents. I want my knight to be real, and dark, and savage. I want my knight to be a survivor. Someone who’s been tested and got through his trials. Not some pussy in gleaming metal. I don’t want gleaming metal. I don’t need a fucking knight. I need a fearless warrior. I need Twitch.
”
”
Belle Aurora (Raw (RAW Family, #1))
“
It’s getting closer,” Tristan said.
Ayden nodded.
“So let’s track it.”
“No,” Ayden snapped. “She’s our priority.”
“I know, but it’s following her, so,” Tristan held one hand up, “find the demon,” he held up the other, “find Aurora. It could work.”
The itching intensified. Invisible claws grazed up the back of my neck, wrenching every nerve to painful attention. Another hungry screech sent spikes piercing my brain. Lights shattered my vision. I couldn’t breathe. I burst out of the suffocating space just as the engine roared to life and gunned the car forward.
With a violent curse, Ayden slammed on the brakes but not before the Maserati rammed my hip. I hurtled into the air and rolled a fast spin onto the hood.
“Or you could just hit her with the car,” Tristan said.
“Real smooth.
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For others' uses, will write now for mine,-
Will write my story for my better self,
As when you paint your portrait for a friend,
Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it
Long after he has ceased to love you, just
To hold together what he was and is.
”
”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)
“
Her dad’s coming,” she said, voice shrill.
“What?” we all said in unison.
Tristan, Ayden and the fairy looked at me and said, “What?”
“What?” I repeated, panicked and irritated at my lack of control in responding to a fairy I wasn’t
supposed to see or hear.
“What?” came their reply.
“What?” I continued the theme of repetition because I lacked any form of explanation.
Ayden held up a hand for silence. “Why are you ‘whatting’?”
“What?”
The hand again. “Okay, stop that,” Ayden said.
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
Dorian strokes my exposed back with the tips of his fingers, sending shockwaves up and down my spine. I gasp from the contact, resisting the urge to beg him for more. He brings his face down to my neck, letting his lips brush my earlobe. “Gabriella, I would love to bend you over this desk right now and pull your dress up past your thighs and over your ass,” he murmurs, sex dripping from his soft lips.
“That sounds good to me,” I breathe, turning my head a fraction. “What’s stopping you?” Never in my life have I been this bold and eager with a man but Dorian has awakened the sleeping sex giant within me. If my days are numbered, I want to at least die happy.
“Oh, I would do it. But I know Aurora will come looking for me and I don’t want to be disturbed when I… ruin you.” Ruin me? It sounds so threatening and violent.
I love it.
”
”
S.L. Jennings (Dark Light (Dark Light, #1))
“
This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of the stove and another believes that he will get well near the window.
It always seems to me that I will be better off there where I am not, and this question of moving about is one that I discuss endlessly with my soul
"Tell me, my soul, my poor chilled soul, what would you think about going to live in Lisbon? It must be warm there, and you'll be able to soak up the sun like a lizard there. That city is on the shore; they say that it is built all out of marble, and that the people there have such a hatred of the vegetable, that they tear down all the trees. There's a country after your own heart -- a landscape made out of light and mineral, and liquid to reflect them!"
My soul does not reply.
"Because you love rest so much, combined with the spectacle of movement, do you want to come and live in Holland, that beatifying land? Perhaps you will be entertained in that country whose image you have so often admired in museums. What do you think of Rotterdam, you who love forests of masts and ships anchored at the foot of houses?"
My soul remains mute.
"Does Batavia please you more, perhaps? There we would find, after all, the European spirit married to tropical beauty."
Not a word. -- Is my soul dead?
Have you then reached such a degree of torpor that you are only happy with your illness? If that's the case, let us flee toward lands that are the analogies of Death. -- I've got it, poor soul! We'll pack our bags for Torneo. Let's go even further, to the far end of the Baltic. Even further from life if that is possible: let's go live at the pole. There the sun only grazes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and darkness suppresses variety and augments monotony, that half of nothingness. There we could take long baths in the shadows, while, to entertain us, the aurora borealis send us from time to time its pink sheaf of sparkling light, like the reflection of fireworks in Hell!"
Finally, my soul explodes, and wisely she shrieks at me: "It doesn't matter where! It doesn't matter where! As long as it's out of this world!
”
”
Charles Baudelaire (Paris Spleen)
“
O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause
For rupture; — herein we must break with Life,
Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged,
Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!'
— And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes
And think all ended. — Then, Life calls to us
In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice,
Above us, or below us, or around . .
Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's,
Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed
To own our compensations than our griefs:
Still, Life's voice! — still, we make our peace with Life.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh and Other Poems)