Monica

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History