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“I wonder if I wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you'. I wonder if just enjoying your kids company isn't more important.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“The more I reach for her soul, the more I connect with mine.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
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“I think that the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness. That confrontation scarcely masks the desire to join greatness, which is the basis of the aesthetic experience once called the Sublime: the quest for a transcendence of limits.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
― Taming Flame
― Taming Flame
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