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“and it was clear, if you looked up, that the earth had turned its blue face away from the sun, that it was sweeping down it's own dark alley in space, over where cobwebs collected in tr he ceiling corner, out of reach of the janitor's broom.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“I've been reading a lot of stuff on the body, and how the body has always been associated with the feminine. So it's interesting that, in Western religion, the body is always seen as sinful. You're supposed to mortify the body and transcend it.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“I am without mercy and there will be no relenting. There is no one to stage a last-minute rescue and there is no possibility of escape for you. This is not a romantic adventure story in which the villain is finally routed and the hero is given a medal and marries the girl. Unfortunately, these things don’t happen in real life.”
― Casino Royale
― Casino Royale
“we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we’d been too infatuated to listen. Our surveillance had been so focused we missed nothing but a simple returned gaze.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
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