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“Of women, he’s heard it said: “She will be the end of me,” or “She will be my undoing.” None of that is true for Liska Radost. She is not the end of anything, but the beginning of everything. He has been dead a long time, and she is his resurrection.”
― Where the Dark Stands Still
― Where the Dark Stands Still
“I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself; but after about a month, during which time she’d firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“She gazed at Peter and thought, 'I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
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