“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness as it whisked her life downstream, a life she had to constantly strain to keep from breaking apart.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
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