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“Where were my allies? My sad captains? Those moonsick girls I drank with over long winters behind the bowling alley, driven there in cars we didn't know. Those times when we were all strangers and everything was so far away but all we needed to do was run towards it. I had not grown much. I had not reached anywhere. I was still running. When I wasn't lying down.”
― Animals
― Animals
“It’s just that when Isobel says things, Laura believes them, and when Virginia says things Laura believes them, too; it’s just that Laura knows she is so soft, soft enough that anyone can shape her, and she knows enough to know this softness makes her weak.”
― The World Cannot Give
― The World Cannot Give
“Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying, “What? I’m not doing anything.”
― Problems
― Problems
“There are truths I haven’t even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“If love is what the world thinks it is," she went on with passionate emphasis, "then I am incapable of it. It is monotony, and I loathe monotony more than anything else in the universe. To live with a person, year in, year out; to see that person at nearly every meal; to hear his opinions again and again! My God, is that what they call love? I call it death! I need passion, colour, the unexpected—the romance of the unknown!”
― I Am Jonathan Scrivener
― I Am Jonathan Scrivener
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