“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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