But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
“I am proud to be an emotionalist.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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