“I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.”
― Juliet, Naked
― Juliet, Naked
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
“It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.”
― The Ersatz Elevator
― The Ersatz Elevator
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