Page 20 Quotes

“You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“Yes, I was infatuated with you; I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I want someone to ask me how I am and really mean it. I want someone to really care what the answer is.”
― Sarabeth Purcell

“The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

“Father once said to me when he was an old man, after he had spent two years in prison, after he and Mother had lost all their money and art treasures in a lawsuit, that his greatest disappointment in life was that he had never been a soldier. That was almost the last illusion he had, and there might have been some substance to it—that he had been born to serve bravely and resourcefully on a battlefield.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick

“Winnie, Vernon knew, was going away because of Father. He accepted that fact without any particular interest or curiosity. Nursemaids did sometimes go away because of Father.”
― Mary Westmacott, Giant's Bread