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"i have a teensy tiny feeling that there won't be any character in her characters?? i felt this way when i read Five Years Apart too. maybe i need to wait" — Apr 14, 2026 10:13AM
"i have a teensy tiny feeling that there won't be any character in her characters?? i felt this way when i read Five Years Apart too. maybe i need to wait" — Apr 14, 2026 10:13AM
“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
― Thirteen Reasons Why
― Thirteen Reasons Why
“But isn’t being alone closer to the truest version of ourselves, when we’re not linked to another, not diluted by their presence and judgments? We form relationships with others, friends, family. That’s fine. Those relationships don’t bind the way love does. We can still have lovers, short-term. But only when alone can we focus on ourselves, know ourselves. How can we know ourselves without this solitude?”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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