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The Shards

by Bret Easton Ellis

bookshelves: literary-fiction, mystery, thriller, currently-reading

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Jul 23, 2026 02:53AM

“It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

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“Was it ever real? The way we felt about another person? Or was it always a projection of something we needed or wanted regardless of them?”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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“But no matter who stays
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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“I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness. Sometimes I wanted only to fill it, frightened that if I didn’t it would eat me alive or kill me. But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it—a beautiful, silent erasure. A desire to be vanished.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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“People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

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