“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Sunset is the saddest light there is.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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