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- In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and…
- When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he…
- I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
- girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
- What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
- There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
- Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of…
- My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
- The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
- They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
- They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him…
- It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls,…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle