“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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