

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned

“January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt

“How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
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