“I still couldn't accept that Trevor was a loser and a moron. I didn't want to believe that I could have degraded myself for someone who didn't deserve it. I was still stuck on that bit of vanity. But I was determined to sleep it away.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.”
It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Sula
It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Sula
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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