“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“Polly belonged wholly to her time. Alert to its defects and dangers, she nevertheless had reached what she herself called an "adjustment," and she was very firm in her belief that without the attainment of a state of conscious harmony with the society in which he functioned, no individual could hope to accomplish much of anything”
― The Spider's House
― The Spider's House
“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
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