“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
John Fowles book The Collector
Source: The Collector
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
— David Levithan, book Every Day
Source: Every Day
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