“But maybe the road split between:
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“So much of what I had thought of as femininity was really just youth.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“He tried to hate God but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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