matthea

“The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection, to make one’s every dream a reality.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“She was the still point in the turning world.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The eternal youth of the world makes me feel breathless. Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed