“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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