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“Then, Beowulf says wistfully, "Your beauty is nuanced and labyrinthine like a sentence by Proust.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Can I take your coat?” Cupcake offers. I turn to her. She’s looking at me so hopefully. So willing to take a coat I’m not wearing, I almost want to give her my skin.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Our mothers always said to look hard at the things of this world that are owies on the eyes because they will put more colors in your inner rainbow.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny