I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed? - Zoë Heller
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
- Zoë Heller
We are bound by the secrets we share. - Zoë Heller
We are bound by the secrets we share.
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it. - Zoë Heller
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. - Zoë Heller
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party. - Zoë Heller
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have live… - Zoë Heller
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have live…
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. - Zoë Heller
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. - Zoë Heller
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality. - Zoë Heller
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
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