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After a moment’s hesitation, I became paralyzed by the sheer number of choices.
“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.”
― Two on a Tower
― Two on a Tower
“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
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