“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“You think weakness is a problem. I want to be torn apart by everything.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“You don’t want to be someone’s muse, you want to be someone’s undoing. And let me tell you, Kitten… You’re mine.”
― Blind Side
― Blind Side
“I'm a river widened by misery, and the potency of my language is more than human.”
― Heart Berries
― Heart Berries
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