“We like to forget that men imprisoned women in the house and expected gratitude in return.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you right before you drop the final inch, so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a diner like purgatory instead, waiting and hoping, and taking orders.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person - but more than that, we cry because it helps. The grief process is also the coping process and if the grief is frozen in ambiguity, by the constant possibility of reversal, then so is the ability to cope.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“But desire, Ethan, is where it all begins. If you don't want more, you don't get more.”
― Run, Rose, Run
― Run, Rose, Run
“Redzi, Džūd, dzīvē ar jaukiem cilvēkiem reizēm noteik kaut kas labs. Neuztraucies, tā nenotiek tik bieži, cik vajadzētu. Tomēr tajās retajās reizēs jaukajiem cilvēkiem vienkārši jāpasaka "paldies" un jādzīco tālāk, un varbūt jāpieļauj iespēja, ka labdarim arī ir prieks, un viņš negrib uzklausīt iemeslus, kāpēc labvēlības pieņēmējs neuzskata, ka ir tās cienīgs un to pelnījis.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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