Sandra

“They fought as though the most important thing was to damage each other as much as possible.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“There is a time, she thinks, at the start of any relationship, when the process of falling in love softens a personality, like wax in a warm room. And so two people in love change, just a little, pushing their wax figures together, a protuberance here smoothed down but creating a dip there. It doesn’t last long, the time when love can gently change who you are, and in the relationships that she’s visited over the last six months, the moment has long passed. She has been presented with the shape of her new husband, and invited to either contort to fit or reject him wholesale.”
― Holly Gramazio, The Husbands

“Sooner or later, somebody has to want something, and then admit to it.”
― Holly Gramazio, The Husbands

“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun