“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― A Farewell to Arms
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― A Farewell to Arms
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
― The Wild Years
― The Wild Years
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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