“The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
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“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
“The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
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