Quote by Olivia Laing Download Open image ““(‘we can take your liver out and give it to the Princeton Museum, your heart to the Plaza Hotel’).”” — Olivia Laing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The heart isn’t like the liver; it doesn’t regenerate, no matter how much time passes. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.” — Julie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.” — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver” — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
“Is there anything in this place to drink that didn’t once filter through internal organs?” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I have a favorite cemetery I go to, because it’s really clean and the doctors and nurses are all very nice.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“One human life, a human heart freely given--it's the greatest gift anyone can give.” — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“In your heart is a secret room where all the gifts that life has given you, and which you haven’t opened yet, are piled… — Bianca Gaia Copy Share Image
“here we have the perfect gift to share with the world, just bursting to be opened, and we keep it sitting there, wrapped tightly… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“The heart, a mausoleum to shelter dead emotions from the ravages of time.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“I want a new liver to replace my heart." "Um, why?" "Because then I could drink more and care less.” — L.A. Casey Copy Share Image
“My uncle's a big drinker. In fact, he just got a liver transplant. They replaced it with a bottle of whiskey.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting loneliness on… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“There is no possibility of permanent tenancy on this circling planet. It isn’t part of the deal.” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“they’d even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“The city reveals itself as a set of cells, a hundred thousand windows, some darkened and some flooded with green or white or golden… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a very special place. It isn’t always easy to see the truth of Wilson’s statement, but over the course of my travels… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“When he changed his mind, very suddenly, expressing increasingly grave reservations into a series of hotel phones, I found myself adrift, stunned by the… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains.” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“As long as Frank was well, I was happy,’ he wrote in Memoirs. ‘He had a gift for creating a life and, when he… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image