Jennifer (formerly Eccentric Muse)
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"I am reading this at the same time as Ian McEwan's newest, What We Can Know, and they both start with dinner parties, roughly around the same time (late 90s-early '00s) at which 3 or 4 entirely unlikeable, upper-middle-class British couples are gathered. It's very confusing!" Nov 15, 2025 07:00AM

 
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Lydia Millet
“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

Henry James
“Basil Ransom had got up just as Mrs. Luna made this last declaration; for a young lady had glided into the room, who stopped short as it fell upon her ears. She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips--it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.”
Henry James, The Bostonians

Weike Wang
“Americans he found to be so outwardly happy all the time and superficially positive. To be indiscriminately happy seemed to him as much of a curse as to be indiscriminately sad.”
Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

Lydia Millet
“Maybe it was not fear of death that motivated the people who were most alive, she thought, but some other force, say a capacity for delight.”
Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

Anne Enright
“There was something out of kilter with his mother's happiness, as though a light had been switched on by a passing stranger, and left to illuminate an empty room.”
Anne Enright, The Green Road

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