“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“They are the we of me.”
― The Member of the Wedding
― The Member of the Wedding
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”
― The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
― The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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