“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”
― Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
― Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― Romeo and Juliet
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― Romeo and Juliet
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