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“What point is there in dying in a ward, listening to the moans and rasps of the terminally ill? Wouldn't it be better to spend the twenty-seven thousand on a banquet, then, after taking poison, depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by intoxicated beautiful women and dashing friends?”
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“I’m telling you it’s cold inside the body that is not the body,
lonesome behind the face
that is certainly not the face
of the person one meant to become.”
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lonesome behind the face
that is certainly not the face
of the person one meant to become.”
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“I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well”
― The Sick Bag Song
― The Sick Bag Song
“The bad things that happen to you don’t have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday”
― Night Film
― Night Film
“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Piece and Piece and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
Ellena’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Ellena’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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38 friends
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267 books
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162 books
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183 books
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93 books
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276 books
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5 friends
383 books
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