“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.”
― Drown
― Drown
“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”
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“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
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