“A reading major, that's what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.”
― The Man Who Fell to Earth
― The Man Who Fell to Earth
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