“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
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“Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.”
― Gretchen McNeil, quote from Possess
“What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian 'il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship between economy and politics, no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although—or, rather, because—these two levels are inextricably intertwined.”
― Slavoj Žižek, quote from The Parallax View
“the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from The Codex
“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
“She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”
― Laura Miller, quote from My Butterfly
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