“But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“In retelling these events, I have fought against a tendency to sentimentalize Julian, to make him seem very saintly—basically to falsify him—in order to make our veneration of him seem more explicable; to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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