I’m not in the mood to murder someone tonight, but I must. My pulse quickens as I gaze at the dozens of sweat-slicked bodies filling the sandy beach, twirling and touching beneath the moon’s glow. I wonder which one I will absorb the life
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“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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