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“Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuffed into the mouths of actors who pretended to be enamored. One could only pretend to love in language. True love was a woman sinking up to her elbows in her viscera.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”
― Tonio Kröger / Mario und der Zauberer
― Tonio Kröger / Mario und der Zauberer
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
― New Chronicles of Rebecca
― New Chronicles of Rebecca
“Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
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