Katie’s Reviews > The Secret History > Status Update

"It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don't know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days"

God, that universal desire to just be a part of something

"I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself; but after about a month, during which time she'd firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Slyvia Plath" Richard Papen you asshole. I will kill you with a gun.