You lied to her and you lied to me, and you didn’t do it for love of either of us, you did it for yourself, because you don’t have the courage of your choices, because you’re a coward.
“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― The Mermaids Singing
― The Mermaids Singing
“I don’t like the news on the radio. It’s always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What’s more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid. An invalid, one who has been invalidated. No valid passport. No exit.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
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