“There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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