“Where did these glasses come from?” I asked, frowning at the barware. “These are my car wine glasses. I always carry a pair.” “Of course you do.”


“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
― The Foxhole Court
― The Foxhole Court

“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
“This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression.”
― The Foxhole Court
― The Foxhole Court
“It’s about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you.”
― The Foxhole Court
― The Foxhole Court
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