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“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“We may not have worked, but
my God,
we were good at pretending.
My God,
we were something to look at.”
― What We Buried
my God,
we were good at pretending.
My God,
we were something to look at.”
― What We Buried
“Stars are not small or gentle.
They are writhing and dying and burning.
They are not here to be pretty.
I am trying to learn from them.”
―
They are writhing and dying and burning.
They are not here to be pretty.
I am trying to learn from them.”
―
“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
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