“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“I knew by then the way the story went. Our little drama was rapidly hurtling towards its climactic crisis. What next, when we reached the precipice?
First, the reckoning. Then, the fall.”
― If We Were Villains
First, the reckoning. Then, the fall.”
― 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 can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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