“you’ve made a structural mistake with life and death my dear you’ve put the living underground and kept the dead up here” Euripides Antigonick Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

You couldn’t expand your borders to encompass the world, without eventually finding the world within your borders. Christopher Huang A Pretender’s Murder #booksky #books

Ismene: you are a person in love with the impossible Antigone: and when my strength is gone I’ll stop Euripides Antigonick Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

…if evil looks good to you some god is heading you on the high road to ruin. Euripides Antigonick Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

“I was talking to a rich guy the other day, and he said I was a damn fool to buy real books because he had a library twice as big as mine and dummy books. What the hell! If a guy’s gonna have a library, why, I say do it right.” W.R. Burnett Little Caesar Pt. VI, Ch. 1 #booksky #books

We poked around in the ashes for a few minutes—not that we expected to find anything, but because it’s the nature of man to poke around in ruins. Dashiell Hammett Arson Plus in Continental Op Stories https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dashiell-hammett/continental-op-stories #booksky #books

O mankind so deluded! so pointlessly deluded! Why investigate, study, devise ten thousand technologies yet you do not know this one thing and cannot grasp it: how to teach a mindless man to think. Euripides Hippolytos in Grief Lessions: Four Plays Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

Q. Will you admit this fact, that we are at a turning point? A. If it’s a fact it’s not a turning point. Maurice Blanchot Quoted in: Grief Lessons: Four Plays Preface to Herakles #booksky #books

And I answered her: Rejoice, go and remember me. For you know how we cherished you. Sappho If Not, Winter Frag. 94 Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

“A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” Stephen Crane https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44049/a-man-said-to-the-universe #booksky #books

“If you know it exists, it knows you exist. The more you know about it, the more it knows about you. If you can see it, it can see you. And it hates to be seen.” QNTM There Is No Antimemetics Division Pt. I, ch. 3 #booksky books

I found a book and spent the next half-hour reading about a sweet young she-chump and a big strong he-chump and all their troubles. Dashiell Hammett Death on Pine Street in Nightmare Town #booksky #books

And, also, all successful bunko men come in time to believe that the world—except for themselves—is populated by a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility. Dashiell Hammett Zigzags of Treachery in Nightmare Town #booksky #books

not one girl I think who looks on the sun will ever have wisdom like this Sappho If Not, Winter Fr. 56 Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

“I didn’t see anything. I don’t know anything. I’ve got a million enemies, most of whose names I can’t remember.” Dashiell Hammett Night Shots in Nightmare Town #books #booksky (Edited 6:42 PM via @skeetsapp.com#books

Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides Bakkhai Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

someone will remember us I say even in another time Sappho If not, Winter Fr. 147 Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

But you, Pentheus, put too much emphasis on forcing your way: do you really think violence is the only way to influence people? Think again. Euripides Bakkhai Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up. Veronica Roth When Among Crows Ch. 7 #booksky #books

So there he fell and slept the sleep of bronze. Homer The Iliad Bk. 11 Tr. by Emily Wilson #booksky #books

One did not bargain with the gods. Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana Ch. 17 #booksky #books

“Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Problem of Thor Bridge in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes #booksky #books

“Your idea of freedom is exactly what has let them conquer us, and then hold us.” Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana Ch. 9 #booksky #books

There was no fate or justice in her death. Vergil The Aeneid Bk. 4 Tr. by Sarah Ruden #booksky #books

Athena looked straight into his eyes and said, “Be brave. Homer The Odyssey Bk. 13 Tr. by Emily Wilson #booksky #books

The gods do not give everything at once to humans. Homer The Iliad Bk. 4 Tr. by Emily Wilson #booksky #books

I am a restrained person. Otherwise my heart would race past my tongue to pour out everything. Instead I mumble, I gnaw myself. I lose hope. And my mind is burning. Aiskhylos Agamemnon Tr. by Anne Carson in An Oresteia #booksky #books

“Sooner or later it will always come. God knows, there was sin enough….” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Illustrious Client in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes #booksky #books

“They think that things can only be true or not true. But what you learn when you play, or tell stories, or in a dream, is that things can be both true and not true.” Philip Pullman The Book of Dust: The Rose Field Ch. 32 #booksky #books

They knew a Tyrant’s scheming when they saw it. Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana Ch. 9 #booksky #books

“It is a terrible thing, Mr. Holmes, to see a dreadful event, an atrocious situation, preparing itself before your eyes, to clearly understand whither it will lead and yet to be utterly unable to avert it.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Illustrious Client #booksky #books

“There are advantages to being seen as aimlessly degenerate.” Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana Ch. 3 #booksky #books

I do not deny that flowers are pretty, but a million flowers are not a million times prettier than one flower. Rex Stout Black Orchids Ch. 1 #booksky #books

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a nonconductor?” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Dying Detective in His Last Bow #booksky #books

There is consciousness everywhere. Not all the same kind of consciousness in every part, but something it would be hard to call anything else. Philip Pullman The Book of Dust: The Rose Field Ch. 7 #booksky #books

“Crime is common. Logic is rare.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Copper Beeches in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #booksky #books

“I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?” “For my education, Holmes.” “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Red Circle in His Last Bow #booksky #books

No one had commissioned this work. No one had a right to any expectations of it. All they could do, really, was read it or not read it. Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Wind Ch XVI #booksky #books

“I call it luck, but it would not have come my way had I not been looking out for it.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge in His Last Bow #booksky #books

Idiots could be cunning sometimes. They were still fools. But dangerous ones. Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Dark Ch. XV #booksky #books

“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge in His Last Bow #booksky #books

“Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Second Stain in The Return of Sherlock Holmes https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-return-of-sherlock-holmes #booksky #books

We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth we live by, or with. They become our lives. Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Dark Ch. XIII #booksky #books

Foolish men could do great damage…. You did not pity them their folly, you took advantage of it when you could. Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Dark Ch. X #booksky #books

Money is not wasted when spent well. Philip Pullman The Book of Dust: The Rose Field Ch. 4 #booksky #books

“There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania,” I answered. Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Six Napoleons in The Return of Sherlock Holmes #booksky #books

I may be old, but I’d like to grow older still. I have things yet to discover…. Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Dark Ch. VI #booksky #books

“By George!” cried the inspector. “How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.” Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Dancing Men in The Return of Sherlock Holmes #booksky #books This material may be protected by copyright.

How do we control what we remember? Guy Gavriel Kay Written on the Dark Ch. V #booksky #books

“I’m crazy—but in moderation.” Dashiell Hammett $106,000 Blood Money in The Big Knockover #booksky #books