“Nothing fulfills expectations.” “No,” Harry said, wondering what they were talking about.
“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.”
― Fuse
― Fuse
“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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