“I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.”
― Justine
― Justine
“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything"... "Nothing was ever good enough," my mom says, "so here at the end of my life, I'm left with nothing.”
― Choke
― Choke
“We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.”
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape.”
― The Swimmer
― The Swimmer
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