“I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
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“The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. And anyway, he'll answer to God for what he did." She announced this with great certainty. For a girl with nothing to her name but a parakeet, to have such unwavering belief in the reckoning of evil in the world—a belief I could never bring myself to have, having seen, time and time again, depravity go unchecked—it awed me, and it was some time before I could bring myself to speak.”
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“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Henry’s a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman — very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He’s a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and he’s made himself what he is by sheer strength of will. His aspiration is to be this Platonic creature of pure rationality and that’s why he’s attracted to the Classics, and particularly to the Greeks — all those high, cold ideas of beauty and perfection.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
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