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

“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

“Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“....he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and custom would disguise it. He thought, in the beginning, that such things would not matter in the long run. But they did, they do, they always will.”
― Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World