“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behavior which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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