“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.”
― The Memoirs of Cleopatra
― The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Bhanavi’s 2025 Year in Books
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