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“I felt my guilt like a brand.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I should get rid of the photo, I knew, the image already charged with the guilty air of evidence. But I couldn’t. I turned the picture over, burying it in a book I’d never read again. The second photo was of the smeary back of someone’s head, turning away, and I stared at the image for a long moment before I realized the person was me.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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