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“Didn’t I tell you, Moony? Didn’t I tell you?!” He whispered, feverishly.
“You did,” Remus smiled, weakly. He lowered his voice, so that no one else could hear him, and looked at Sirius carefully, “Was it scary? Was I scary?” He had no idea what he looked like in wolf form.
Sirius’s expression did not flicker.
“No.” He said, firmly. “You were beautiful.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“You never hear about a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident, and for good reason; in order for universe to teach excruciating lessons that we're unable to apply in later life, the sportsman must lose his legs, the philosopher his mind ,the painter his eyes, the musician his ears, the chef his tongue. My lesson? I have lost my freedom.”
― Steve Toltz (Author)

“Meditate? After everything that's happened,I know the mind isn't worth the membrane it's printed on.”
― Steve Toltz (Author), A Fraction Of The Whole

“Unlike those pulling their hair out in good society,here we don't have to feel ashamed of our day to day unhappiness. Here we have someone visible to blame-someone wearing shiny boots. that's why ,on consideration,freedom leaves me cold. Because out there in real world,freedom means you have to admit authorship, even when your story turns out to be a stinker.”
― Steve Toltz (Author), A Fraction of the Whole

“We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.”
― Steve Toltz (Author)

“You have to know they are dead and the dead have bad dreams.they dream of us.”
― Steve Toltz (Author), A Fraction of the Whole

“When you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.”
― Steve Toltz (Author), A Fraction of the Whole

“In the old days you had to commit specific acts of Valor during war;now you just need to turn up.these days when the war is on,heroism seems to mean attendance.”
― Steve Toltz (Author)

“I was stuck in the middle,that terrible stretch of time where people can't help but breathe.”
― Steve Toltz (Author), A Fraction of the Whole

“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She did not care for children’s books in which the children grew up, as what “growing up” entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”
― John Fowles, The Magus