“ Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? ”
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But if I learned one thing, in my short sad life, is that that banality is a lie: love wins nothing, and whoever thinks it is a fool.
-Dio di illusioni (The Secret History)
By Donna Tartt
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"Why does it seem normal to you to lock yourself in the bathroom in the middle of an argument?"
"It's not an argument, it's you who pretend to be right."
"Because I'm right!"
- Come anima mai
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"It's not bullshit," Jude replied. They were in car. leaning over, and they were driving back to town from Red Hook, “But Arthur is a jerk, Willem. He always has been. And all the years spent studying Herodotus didn't make him a better person.
-A little life
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