“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Does the presence of the other, who yesterday morning felt almost like and intruder, become ever more necessary because it shields us from our own hell--so that the very person who causes our torment by daybreak is the same who'll relieve it at night?”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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