Henri is very sure of everything, which is his most endearing and irritating trait, because I’m not sure of much.
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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