“I often wondered if she was accusing me of starting the war, though in Olga's eyes that would have been the least of my crimes.”
― The Kindness of Women
― The Kindness of Women
“Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.”
― A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English
― A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English
“This was their favorite place to meet. It always felt hidden, forgotten. The gold-lettered World Book encyclopedias from the 1980s. The smell of old glue and crumbling paper, the industrial carpet burning her palms.
It reminded her of what you did when you were a little girl, making little burrows and hideaways. Like boys did with forts. Eli and his friend, stacking sofa cushions, pretending to be sharpshooters. With girls, you didn’t call them forts, though it was the same.”
― The Fever
It reminded her of what you did when you were a little girl, making little burrows and hideaways. Like boys did with forts. Eli and his friend, stacking sofa cushions, pretending to be sharpshooters. With girls, you didn’t call them forts, though it was the same.”
― The Fever
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