“I'm not sure how it happened; not exactly. All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“...it wasn't that the future...seemed bad or frightening so much as incomprehensible, a blot of black ink on the horizon.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“At the silence, my heart went cold. Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to breathe...It was a stillness I knew; this was a house closed in on itself when someone had died.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“If I was supposed to die over there doin what I'd give my word to do then that's what I should of done. You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I can't. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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