Sublime
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She had studied the habits of the monied with diligence. She copied their modes of dress and speech, and cultivated an air of carelessness. But she was ill at ease around the household staff and the caterers, because she feared that if anyone from her home planet were to look at her too closely, they’d see through her disguise.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
These had all felt so expensive and important when I bought them, and had in their own way become a part of my identity.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
she “lives at a rate and intensity and with a reality that makes other lives seem pale, thin and shadowy.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Challenging myself to absorb more and more hate is a masochistic form of vanity—the vestigial allure of a rugged individualism that I don’t even believe in. No one wants to need defenses that strong. It always hurts, somewhere.