The Secret History sentence meme.
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory.”
“Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
“Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
“This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
“But how, how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?”
“But you’re not very happy where you are, either.”
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once.”
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty.”
“Love doesn’t conquer everything.”
“And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
“Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale.”
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”
“How did they get there?”
“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?”
“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way.”
“It is easy to see things in retrospect.”
“Death is the mother of beauty.”
“There are such things as ghosts.”
“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?”
“You know, everybody is saying that you’re dead.”
“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one.”
“Really? I think it’s rather grand.”
“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
“You think nothing exists if you can’t see it.”
“I see so little of you these days.”
“I feel that you’re becoming just a shadow in my life.”