Category: _Writing I like

He offended no more than he pleased.

Madame Bovary – Flaubert

In flickering intervals a firefly pursues itself.

Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet

Unhappily Orin Silver, a man of far-reaching aims, had died too soon to prove that the end justifies the means. His accounts revealed merely what the means had been; and these were such that it was fortunate for his wife and daughter that his books were examined only after his impressive funeral. His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton