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"“Then the two women sit on the wall and drink beer and insult each other, and on one side of them sit the two invisible girls they used to be. And, almost certainly, on the other side of them sits Ramona.”
We’re 3/3 with Beartown books that have made me cry on public transportation" — Jul 14, 2026 11:07AM
"“Then the two women sit on the wall and drink beer and insult each other, and on one side of them sit the two invisible girls they used to be. And, almost certainly, on the other side of them sits Ramona.”
We’re 3/3 with Beartown books that have made me cry on public transportation" — Jul 14, 2026 11:07AM
“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
“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.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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