“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Why are you crying?" he asked.
"I don't know, I don't know, but I can't help it. I'm sad and I don't know why, I cry and I don't know why, but I'm crying.”
― The Martian Chronicles
"I don't know, I don't know, but I can't help it. I'm sad and I don't know why, I cry and I don't know why, but I'm crying.”
― The Martian Chronicles
“It’s not that I hate men,” the woman says. “I’m just terrified of them. And I’m okay with that fear.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
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