These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“dear me, let us be elegant or die.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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