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“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“There isn't a pebble on the beach of my inner history that she has left unturned. She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

“The proper study of mankind is man," you know.'
'You must study him, then,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet