The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. ”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Was that the beginning, that evening—on the dock of Avilion, with the fireworks dazzling the sky? It's hard to know. Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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