Quotes as writing prompts
Jul 20, 2023 21:18:21 GMT
indigoblue, Silver-White-Winters, and 1 more like this
Post by thoughts-of-joy-dreams-of-love on Jul 20, 2023 21:18:21 GMT
I sometimes use quotes at the beginning of my stories to sort of set the tone or elaborate on the themes. I have this Google Doc of quotes I've come across that struck me for whatever reason -- but at this point, I have way more quotes than I could possibly write stories for 
. So I thought I'd drop a few here that might work for TSOM (some might be a stretch lol, but you never know how something will hit you!)
. So I thought I'd drop a few here that might work for TSOM (some might be a stretch lol, but you never know how something will hit you!) - "I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
- "He felt a peculiar tingling sense of joy, a keenness of perception, a fine, delicate tingling as of music. ‘You know,' he said, repeating himself, ‘it is true. You seem to have knit all things in a piece for me. Things are not separate; they are all in a symphony. They go moving on and on. You are the motive in everything.’" - D.H. Lawrence, The Trespasser
- "I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike, but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?" - Sylvia Plath
- "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." - Jacques Benigne Bossuel
- "You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest." - John Keats
- "How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often, or forever, when we were little? Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage or making us nervous because there never seemed to be any rage at all? … And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness? Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning? For shutting doors or speaking through walls? For never speaking or never being silent? Do we forgive our fathers in our age or in theirs? … If we forgive our fathers, what is left?” - Smoke Signals (1998), dir. Chris Eyre (I know this one is different lol, but I feel like realistically, the older kids in particular might have some lingering conflicting emotions about Georg and I'd love to see a fic that explores it!)
- "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table
- "It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss; if you think about it, you don’t do it." - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
- “Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in. I want an excuse to change my life.” - Franny Choi, “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”
And that's it! Have any of you ever been inspired to write by a quote? Are there any quotes/song lyrics/lines of poetry that have really reminded you of TSOM?
