“One that they fought and died to protect in the war. Perhaps that’s the better way to think of it, rather than feeling guilty. To remember that this day means something to them. All of them, regardless of who has more, who has less, and in
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“When the lights came on, and the circle of darkness leapt back into the mundane and familiar boundaries of the living room-”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I don’t know where Henry was. Probably looking at the moon and reciting some poem from the T’ang Dynasty.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Don't count yourself out this early, Daisy. You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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