Addy Lee

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History