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“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven