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What was it about an apology that was so difficult? It always felt like it cost something personal and precious. Only now that she was a mother was she so aware of this: the stubbornness and pride that came with being human, the desire to
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“Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs Avery?” asked Julian.
“No, of course not, she said. “It’s a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they’ve never met.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“No, of course not, she said. “It’s a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they’ve never met.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see,” said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. “That’s true,” she said. “But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
Jacquie’s 2025 Year in Books
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