“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.”
― Selected Letters III: 1929-1931
― Selected Letters III: 1929-1931
“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
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