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After a moment’s hesitation, I became paralyzed by the sheer number of choices.
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.”
― Two on a Tower
― Two on a Tower
“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, . . . there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the infinitely great, the stellar universe, strikes down upon the infinitely little, the mind of the beholder . . . Having got closer to immensity than their fellow-creatures, they saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness. They more and more felt the contrast between their own tiny magnitudes and those among which they had recklessly plunged, till they were oppressed with the presence of a vastness they could not cope with even as an idea, and which hung about them like a nightmare.”
― Two on a Tower
― Two on a Tower
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