“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”
― The Rules of Attraction
― The Rules of Attraction
“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Letters Home
― Letters Home
“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
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