Imago
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It had used all its tricks to protect us from becoming ooloi. It had used all its tricks to keep itself agonizingly alone.
“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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