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“Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the loop. If I am hungry and I eat and I remain hungry, hunger becomes rage. But to deny fulfillment makes sense of the hunger – I don’t eat, so I am hungry.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Silence creates its own violence.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“The kindness in his smile seemed infinite.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The women feast on the poor man’s flesh, And chew each bone whilst it is fresh, So the two women can become one with a kiss.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Up until now, I thought I had enjoyed my life alone, somehow.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“even a cracked pot has a lid that fits.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time, like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever: hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“My name is Nobody.”
― Homer, The Odyssey