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“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Carol

“Enough or not...it will have to do”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?”
― Joan Didion

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays