“She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost”
― The Rehearsal
― The Rehearsal
“She meant something different: she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found. And since I know her well, or at least I think I know her, I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we are alone.”
― Every Man Dies Alone
― Every Man Dies Alone
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