31 quotes found
“But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...”
“Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.”
“No privacy left. No manners.”
“I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had...”
“Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.”
“He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for unders...”
“Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do.""But Rango, you couldn't respec...”
“What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?”
“He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.”
“Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...”
“When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive”