“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
“...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
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