“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“There’s always been something inside her that men have wanted to dominate, and their desire for domination can look so much like attraction, even love.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“There's an old saying, he said, about how the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home and writes a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems. If he stays a month, he writes a magazine or a newspaper article filled with 'ifs,' 'buts,' and 'on the other hands.' If he stays a year, he writes nothing at all”
― Asymmetry
― Asymmetry
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