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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea