“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”
― Sister
― Sister
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
― Snobs
― Snobs
“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”
― Past Imperfect
― Past Imperfect
“Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...”
― Past Imperfect
― Past Imperfect
“How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing wiht it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.”
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