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“I knew that lust was a dangerous thing, but I wanted these men to lust for me because, even though I didn't know the precise shape and weight of lust, I knew that lust was power - and I wanted power even then.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“He was a luscious memory I held in my head. I could take his memory out of safekeeping and stroke it when I needed it.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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