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“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific—chair, eye, stone—but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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Join us for a special discussion with author Marisha Pessl on Monday, December 16th! Marisha will be discussing her latest book, Night Film. Bec ...more
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