“Eigentlich gehörte sie zu einer Generation, deren turnschuh-tragenden und Sushi-essenden Vertretern schon der Besitz einer Hauskatze als unerträgliche Verantwortung erschien. „Haus bauen, Baum pflanzen, Kind zeugen“ war kein Glücksrezept mehr, sondern eine Horrorvision. Die Ewigpubertierenden wollten sich alles offen halten und wunderten sich dann über Orientierungslosigkeit.”
― Unterleuten
― Unterleuten
“Wenn ich in Unterleuten eins gelernt habe, dann dass jeder Mensch ein eigenes Universum bewohnt, in dem er von morgens bis abends recht hat.”
― Unterleuten
― Unterleuten
“Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.”
― Unterleuten
― Unterleuten
“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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