“he didn’t want to grow up. Adulthood had no benefits that he could see and he was loath to join that cruel population.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“The day I went into physics class it was death.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I have become an old fart”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
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