Rick

“He lived among people who regarded golf as a universal panacea, and in a world which believed in panaceas.”
― Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep

“They're as tiresome as truthful people. Everything in art should be false. Everything in life should be art. Ergo, everything in life should be false: complexions, teeth, hair, wives ... 'specially wives.”
― Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep

“She knows, Isabel thought, and flushed from the inside out--mortified, a shuddering shame at something she couldn't name.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Daniel laughed at men who did not read fiction, which was nearly all the men he knew. They were afraid of something in themselves, he said. Afraid of being shown up, of not understanding. Or, more likely, the opposite: they would be led to understanding themselves and it scared the shit out of them.”
― Charlotte Wood