“Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“(“To listen to his singing,” Billy diagnosed, “is to have the rare pleasure of envying the deaf.”)”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“tired is not an emotion! Dig deeper!”
― All the Way to the River
― All the Way to the River
“Multiple studies have shown, for instance, that heterosexual women who are married and have children do not live as long as women who are single and childless. Why? Because women give themselves to death.”
― All the Way to the River
― All the Way to the River
“That’s the thing about your own grief. No one can ever know it but you.”
― The Impossible Fortune
― The Impossible Fortune
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