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“All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. ”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation...
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”
― Notes from Underground
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”
― Notes from Underground
“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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