Becky Benson

“Well if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o’clock, you hardly think what you’re going to feed the corpse for dinner."
“Aspargus is in season,” said Francis helpfully.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate with watching 'The Wonderful World of Disney' on Sunday nights. Sunday was a sad day - early to bed, school the next morning, I was constantly worried my homework was wrong - but as I watched the fireworks go off in the night sky, over the floodlit castles of Disneyland, I was consumed by a more general sense of dread, of imprisonment within the dreary round of school and home: circumstances which, to me at least, presented sound empirical argument for gloom.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History