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“...Is it depressing or what?"
"Well," Max said, "I haven't committed suicide yet."
"But you've been thinking about it."
"Luckily, I haven't had that much leisure time.”
― White Palace
"Well," Max said, "I haven't committed suicide yet."
"But you've been thinking about it."
"Luckily, I haven't had that much leisure time.”
― White Palace
“He was supposed to be in love with her, for chrissakes. Yet the truth of it was, this news of her recent string of successes was paining him. He was jealous. He didn't know what he was jealous of, precisely, but the bitter fact remained: whatever was making Nora glow like this, it had nothing to do with him.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“I don't berate myself for not having liked Janey better. It wasn't in my power to like her better. But I loved her and I fulfilled my obligations towards her — which just might be the very same thing, when you come right down to it.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“It seem to me there are certain things you don't have the right to forgive yourself for."
"You could always look at it from the Catholic stand-point. Peter denied his own best lover three times, and he certainly didn't go to hell for it."
"I'm not St. Peter." Max said. "And if Nora turn out to be Jesus Christ, we're all in deep trouble.”
― White Palace
"You could always look at it from the Catholic stand-point. Peter denied his own best lover three times, and he certainly didn't go to hell for it."
"I'm not St. Peter." Max said. "And if Nora turn out to be Jesus Christ, we're all in deep trouble.”
― White Palace
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