“I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I have a fetish for damsels in distress.”
“Don’t be sexist.”
“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.”
― City of Glass
“Don’t be sexist.”
“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.”
― City of Glass
“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
― Pet Sematary
― Pet Sematary
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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