“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. 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
“Dear Jesus, do something.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
Ask Meg Rosoff - Monday, November 4th!
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Join us on Monday, November 4th for a special discussion with author Meg Rosoff! Meg will be discussing her book How I Live Now. The movie adapt ...more
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