“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“People are more than you think they are. And they’re less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.”
― The Snow Queen
― The Snow Queen
“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote.
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
“The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.”
― The Other Place
― The Other Place
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