“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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