“the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We don’t get the families we deserve,”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― The Secret History
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― The Secret History
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