

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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