“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
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“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.”
― A Complicated Kindness
― A Complicated Kindness
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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