“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Nothing makes sense to him either. His whole world is falling apart, and once he realizes he can’t stop it or fix it or change it, there’s only one thing left to do.” My eyes adjusted slowly, maddeningly. “What’s that?” His shadow shrugged in the gloom. “Absolve yourself. Blame it on fate.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“You amaze me," he said. "You think nothing exists if you can't see it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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