“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote.
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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