“When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?”
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“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
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Maybe we’re from the same star.”
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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Does it hurt?" we finally heard her whisper, and in that moment, she was achingly beautiful, beautiful almost beyond belief: She was warmth, she was moisture, she was light, she was the adamant perfection of a million billion snowflakes in a split second's descent, she was tender, she was eternal, and she was memory, and she was love.”
― The Extinction of Irena Rey
― The Extinction of Irena Rey
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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