“There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Her dreams are spare, lack the propulsion of a mission, her ambition is without traction.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me whithersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“And what she remembered now, staring out Richard’s window toward the afternoon sun, was the absurd feeling back then, when Claire was eight, that they’d already missed the boat forever. That the damage had been done sometime in the past, not the present, and they were living in its aftermath. That the best they could hope for was good scarring.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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