“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“Being in love with someone is like daytime. You know there are other stars our there someplace, but you can only see the sun.”
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“Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
“You go to someone and you think, 'I’ll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that’s why you feel awful later—you’ve relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it’s not better, it’s worse—the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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