“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together I'll burn alone.”
― The Rules of Attraction
― The Rules of Attraction
“Girls are cruellest to themselves.”
― The Glass Essay
― The Glass Essay
“The centre of the world is no longer where she is but where her beloved is; all roads leave from and lead to his house. She uses his words and repeats his gestures, adopts his maniacs and tics. 'I am Heathcliff,' says Catherine in Wuthering Heights; this is the cry of all women in love; she is another incarnation of the beloved, his reflection, his double: she is he. She lets her own world flounder in contingence. She lives in his universe.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“A stranger is someone who sits very still at the kitchen table, looks down at his knuckles, thinks some day we will laugh about this, doesn't believe it.”
― Glass, Irony and God
― Glass, Irony and God
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hands down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country.”
― The Glass Essay
― The Glass Essay
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