I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to...
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Tana French
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
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Shannon L. Alder
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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Yukio Mishima
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or...
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Carson McCullers
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...
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Thomas Hardy
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The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.
Before September 11, the skinny, jittery black guy made security think one thing: drug mule. But after the attacks, security only cared about bombs. So it was the Arab guys, the Puerto Ricans and Indians, even white men, that got searched. I was too dark...
Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing.
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
That’s the funny thing, ” she said. “Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all...
