

“Their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance. It was permissible to touch each other and cry during football matches.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“How strange to write about "having" when for so long I've drawn inspiration only from longing?”
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
“My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.”
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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