“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“I guess I'm thinking of myself here. I am tired. I am the one who asks, is death only the frozen image we have of the animal's body?...Maybe roadkills are more than they seem. Messages...”
― The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
― The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
“I want a dress the color of suffering”
― La Marquise de Sade
― La Marquise de Sade
“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.”
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