“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together ... Divisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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