“It felt ominous to me - the aestheticized girliness, infatuation and weakness.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“The poached egg on your plate at breakfast is not dirt. The poached egg on page 202 of the Greek lexicon in the library of the British Museum is dirt.”
― Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
― Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
“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
“Girls are cruellest to themselves.”
― The Glass Essay
― The Glass Essay
“I was overcome by a sense of how much more there was in his life than in mine, by the things to do and distances to travel, while I never had done anything or gone anywhere, and never would.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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