“I feel as if things are falling apart within me,
like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a
fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed
in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and
inaccessible.”
― Whatever
like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a
fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed
in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and
inaccessible.”
― Whatever
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
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