Helena
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"Getting through this incredibly slowly on purpose because I would like it to last forever" — Jan 29, 2026 01:18AM
"Getting through this incredibly slowly on purpose because I would like it to last forever" — Jan 29, 2026 01:18AM
“Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he read, the ideas and feelings which nourished him, his judgments and his visions. Outside it, in the scene of his actual life, he moved with a growing sense of unreality and insufficiency, blundering against familiar prejudices and traditional points of view as an absent-minded man goes on bumping into the furniture of his own room.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things.
There is only the present and nothing to remember.”
― The Passion
By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things.
There is only the present and nothing to remember.”
― The Passion
“Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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