“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Circe
― Circe
“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you—whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”
― Everything I Never Told You
― Everything I Never Told You
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