Underrated ‘The secret history’ quotes:
“On leaving home I was able to fabricate a new and far more satisfying history.”
“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
“I don’t think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me.”
“The great romantics are often failed classicists.”
“But isn’t it always pain that often makes us most aware of self?”
“All she lacks is a mother’s firm hand, but still, for my money, she’s what you call a bramble rose.”
“It’s beautiful here, but the morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.”
“And always, always that same toast. Live forever.”
“She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.”
“My life, which before had been only solitary and miserable. Became unbearable.”
“Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; “
“We’d all been really, truly out of our minds. And it may be a superhuman effort to loose oneself so completely, but that’s nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again.”
“She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who ate chocolates, a girl who’s hair smelt like hyacinth and who’s scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze.”
“We’d done our errands, not to mention an awful lot of cocaine in the parking lot of Burger King.”
“I suppose it would be interesting to say that at this point I felt torn in some way, grappled with the moral implications of each courses available to me. But I don’t recall experiencing anything of a sort.”
“I buried my face in the soft, slightly acrid - smelling flesh of her neck, and rocked back and forth - babbling, mumbling, feeling myself fall down and down, into a half-forgotten life.”
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