“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“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
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“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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