“Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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