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“How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”
― The Lovely Bones
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”
― The Lovely Bones
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