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1 " Scott, with a gentleness that Gerald would never forget and that continued to pain him long afterward, ever so carefully turned the beetle back over, cradled it in his palm, and placed it tenderly under a mound of lavender. "
― Liza Klaussmann , Villa America
2 " She walked towards the edge."Wait," Sara said suddenly. "No, this is mad. You could kill yourselves."Zelda tuned to her and said: "Oh, but Say-ra. Didn't you know? We're not conservationists." And then she jumped. "
3 " Wait," Sara said suddenly. "No, this is mad. You could kill yourselves." Zelda turned to her and said: "Oh, but, Say-ra. Didn't you know? We're not conservationists." And then she jumped. "
4 " If there's one thing you can be sure about in this life, it's that you won't always be kissing the right person "
― Liza Klaussmann , Tigers in Red Weather
5 " I could get drunk just smelling you,' he whispered in her ear. 'You always smell like home. "
6 " It was as if her mother and aunt had been snatched away by goblins and replaced with fairies of some sort. They looked so beautiful to her, and so different… They could have said anything, and she would have loved them. "
7 " No, everything was new now, just waiting to be discovered. And she would ... She was hungry for it, she would stuff the whole world into her mouth and bite down. "
8 " Why do it? I mean, why do what everyone expects of you? Who’s watching? "
9 " But can a true artist be part of a collective, or will she always end up striving for individuality? "
10 " But wine will get you further than flattery with this crowd. "
11 " I don't know if our paths will ever cross again. But, my God, I'm glad they crossed at all. "
12 " They were supposed to be different, different from all the people who didn't want things and didn't do things and weren't special. They were supposed to be the kind of people who said to hell with it, who threw their wine glasses into the fireplace, who jumped off cliffs. They were not supposed to be careful people. "
13 " The golden bowl is broken indeed, but it was golden... "
14 " After a while, however, it had dawned on her that this was life, what was happening right now. "
15 " You told me that if you were to hurt your wife (why can't I even write her name?), it would have to be for everything. "
16 " on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, "
17 " Calvin Tomkins’s beautiful and heartbreaking Living Well Is the Best Revenge. "
18 " Maybe work is just one long process of hiding one’s deficiencies, "
19 " Sometimes there isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been felt. "
20 " Amanda Vaill’s amazing Everybody Was So Young "
