“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Invisible Monsters
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Invisible Monsters
“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― The Kreutzer Sonata
― The Kreutzer Sonata
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