Sava (Fang Runin’s version)’s Reviews > The Secret History > Status Update

I think I had read it too recently and I need to wait till I forget it kinda

At this point reading this book gives a twisted feel of comfort

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

“The Malcontent. The White Devil. The Broken Heart. I pored over them, made notes in the margins. The Jacobeans had a sure grasp of catastrophe. They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.”

“And standing outside the Lyceum, I was struck with a black, incredulous horror, which in fact was not at all unlike the horror I had felt at twelve, sitting on a bar stool in our sunny little kitchen in Piano. Who is in control here? I thought, dismayed. Who is flying this plane?”

'He's a coward,'he said. 'In our circumstance, he would have done exactly what we did.He's just too much of a hypocrite to admit it'

'He doesn't even care that Bunny is dead. I could forgive him if that was why he felt this way,but it isn't. He wouldn't care if we'd killed half a dozen people.All that matters to him is keeping his own name out of it.Which is essentially what he said when I talked to him last night'

“What did it matter, if they failed to graduate, if they had to go back home? At least they had homes to go to. They had trust funds, allowances, dividend checks, doting grandmas, well connected uncles, loving families. College for them was only a way station, a sort of youthful diversion. But this was my main chance, the only one. And I had blown it.”
Yk Richard mb…just mb you shouldn’t have murdered Banny

”why, I asked myself, oh, why, had I been so foolish, why hadn't I picked something and stuck with it, how was it that I could currently be at the end of my third year of college and have basically nothing to show for it?”

yk Richard as they say “Karma is a bitch I should’ve known better”
Ahahahaha

“I still have an overwhelming wish to see him the way that I first saw him: as the wise old man who appeared to me out of nowhere on a desolate strip of road, with a bewitching offer to make all my dreams come true.”

“I could say that the secret of Julian's charm was that he latched on to young people who wanted to feel better than everybody else; that he had a strange gift for twisting feelings of inferiority into superiority and arrogance.”