“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
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“To me it’s weird when animals pause because they seem so intelligent, but maybe that’s because I associate pausing with thought.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“The headstone is placed on top of the whole affair, like the cherry on a death-denial sundae.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
“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
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