“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“We all have souls of different ages”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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