“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“You’d think people would be wary of spilling to a writer. You’d think they’d know that we’re essentially birds of carrion, picking over the corpses of dead affairs and forgotten arguments to recycle them in our work—zombie reincarnations of their former selves, stitched into a macabre new patchwork of our own devising. Tom,”
― In a Dark, Dark Wood
― In a Dark, Dark Wood
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
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