“I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”

— Bret Easton Ellis , book Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

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American novelist 1964

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