“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.”
― A Virtuous Woman
― A Virtuous Woman
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