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“but most of all I hated the smallness of life here, and how even though it was so small, I was unable to solve the mystery whose central question I could still not determine.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
“Age, then, is not something that can be understood; it is a preoccupation of the old, and the old is anyone older than oneself.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
“That was the thing about death. Only the specifics of it hurt. Death, in a general sense, was background noise. She stood in the silence of it.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“At times a person will make eye contact with Marianne, a bus conductor or someone looking for change, and she’ll be shocked briefly into the realisation that this is in fact her life, that she is actually visible to other people. This feeling opens her to certain longings: hunger and thirst, a desire to speak Swedish, a physical desire to swim or dance.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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