“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”
― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.”
― Of Marriageable Age
― Of Marriageable Age
“Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.”
― Of Marriageable Age
― Of Marriageable Age
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