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“On a fast news day, it was like we had swallowed all of NASCAR and were about to crash into the wall. Either way, it felt like something a dude named Randy was in charge of.”
― No One Is Talking About This
― No One Is Talking About This
“The tide of public opinion has always turned, invariably, on coolness. People just want to be cool.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot. I will tell him that I can never understand such a thing, that maudlin self-pity does not move directly at my heart; I will not make a fool of myself by encouraging him to mock me. “I understand, yes,” she said.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
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