Nancy

“The tragedy of love....is that it is only possible to love perfectly a person who is lost to you; only a lost person, lodged in a place before the narrow, clumsy gates of language, could ever understand you perfectly.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving: A Novel

“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.”
― Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World

“Jayne was left an only child after her younger sister committed suicide in adolescence (a tragedy, yes, but one whose psychic statute of limitations might have run out by now - not that you'd get his wife to relinquish the trauma , which seemed to confer the special-protection status of landmark architecture.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“While crude survival from one day to the next might be every human's ultimate animal goal, for generations the Mandible family had managed to dress up the project as considerably more exalted.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047