Gilberte's Quotes

#1. Her [Gilberte's] face, grown almost ugly, reminded me then of those dreary beaches where the sea, ebbing far out, wearies one with its faint shimmering, everywhere the same, encircled by an immutable low horizon.

Marcel Proust

#2. If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho ... even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.

Philip K. Dick

#3. Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.

Cassandra Clare

#4. You are simply a dream ... and I am tired of dreaming.

Mark Samuels

#5. Feminism without femininity is a sham.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#6. If your happy and you know it a smiley face will surely show it.

David Chiles

#7. [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

Walead Beshty

#8. I had indeed suffered successively through Gilberte, through Mme de Guermantes, through Albertine. Successively also I had forgotten them and only my love, dedicated at different times to different beings, had lasted.

Marcel Proust

#9. Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Marcel Proust

#10. You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

William Martin

#11. I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.

Marcel Proust

#12. Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

Neil Strauss