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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“CORALINE'S STORY
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
― Coraline
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
― Coraline
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“he is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. he cannot unlearn the feeling.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Et puis un jour, tu meurs. (...)
Nous, on est en cocon familial à la campagne. Ce que mes parents ont construit et qui ne te ressemble pas. Une famille qui se colle.
(...) Ma mère s'accroche aux murs. C'est Hiroshima dans son ventre.
Enfin débarrassée de ton absence.
Elle deviendra peut-être normale. Une femme, avec une mère enterrée. (p. 16)”
― La femme qui fuit
Nous, on est en cocon familial à la campagne. Ce que mes parents ont construit et qui ne te ressemble pas. Une famille qui se colle.
(...) Ma mère s'accroche aux murs. C'est Hiroshima dans son ventre.
Enfin débarrassée de ton absence.
Elle deviendra peut-être normale. Une femme, avec une mère enterrée. (p. 16)”
― La femme qui fuit
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