“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born just to die.”
― Luster
― Luster
“The new pop song
is about getting real:
"You had a bad day."
The camera don't lie.
But they're lying
to you
about the camera.”
― Versed
is about getting real:
"You had a bad day."
The camera don't lie.
But they're lying
to you
about the camera.”
― Versed
“There were flowers everywhere—winter flowers: bunches of decorative cabbages and white-budded dogwood branches and paperwhite bulbs, with their sweet, faintly fecal fragrance—”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“She says she is aware of the irony of being a medical examiner who smokes, but that for all the blackened lungs she's seen, it is more disturbing to open the chest cavity of a veteran and find it is pristine.”
― Luster
― Luster
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