“Deep down I wanted some kind of change. Any change, whether good or bad, would be better than the state of impasse I was in now.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“I liked to sit in the library to write essays, allowing my sense of time and personal identity to dissolve as the light dimmed outside the windows.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“He presses his hands down slightly further into his pockets, as if trying to store his entire body in his pockets all at once.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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