Jiao Chen
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“We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Dolores Claiborne
― Dolores Claiborne
“Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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