“All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Fowler Snared
― Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Fowler Snared
“I trust you. But I'm also going with you."
"Of course you are. Because, my Cyn, if the shit hits the fan--"
"When the shit hits the fan."
"--I trust you to be there to turn the damn fan off.”
― Deception
"Of course you are. Because, my Cyn, if the shit hits the fan--"
"When the shit hits the fan."
"--I trust you to be there to turn the damn fan off.”
― Deception
“To be alone—the eternal refrain of life. It wasn’t better or worse than anything else. One talked too much about it. One was always and never alone. A violin, suddenly—somewhere out of a twilight—in a garden on the hills around Budapest. The heavy scent of chestnuts. The wind. And dreams crouched on one’s shoulders like young owls, their eyes becoming lighter in the dusk. A night that never became night. The hour when all women were beautiful.”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”
― The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
― The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
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