what the title says.
there are sooo many for me but one of my favorite quotes ever is from a clockwork orange by anthony burgess:
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.” -Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
“My mother is a fish” -William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.” -Virginia Woolf, The Waves (honestly I could put the entirety of the waves here)
“You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through” -Sophocles, Electra (trans. Anne Carson)
“Yellow? Even in dreams he doesn’t know me at all” -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red