If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.


“Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.”
― Faithful Place
― Faithful Place

“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”
― Broken Harbour
― Broken Harbour

“That voice…[pauses] That was the beginning of a bad time. Where I was not myself. Actually, no. I don’t like putting it that way—you’re never not yourself. You’re always you. It’s just, sometimes, who you are…who you are is a shitty person.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six

“I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
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