Read of the Week: The Beautiful and Damned

"Things are sweeter when they're lost. 

I know - because once I wanted something and got it.

It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, 

and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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Still not done and probably never will because the more I read on, the more I just want to go and drink and become an alcoholic too. This book honestly makes me restless/upset/depressed at all the myriad possibilities and irony of concurrently being successful and fucking things up. Ugh.