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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“They didn’t have very far to fall—I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls