“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Happy endings aren't for cowards.”
― Girls' Poker Night
― Girls' Poker Night
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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