Quote #10

Sheila Wood: If you're so unhappy Nick, why haven't you killed yourself? Drake: It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage.

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  1. You remember me. You remember me how I was. Tell me how I was. I used to have a brain. I used to be somebody. What happened to me? What hap…
  2. [Public school is a place] where the sensitive experience a horrified dissociation from reality that can sometimes never fade away.
  3. I can't think of words. I feel no emotion about anything. I don't want to laugh or cry. I'm numb-dead inside.
  4. I can't cope, all the defenses are gone. All the nerves are exposed.
  5. And I was strong, strong in the sun I thought I'd see when day is done. Now I'm weaker than the palest blue Oh, so weak in the need for you.
  6. I just need your star for a day.
  7. Please give me a second grace
  8. Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

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