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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
"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
“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“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.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“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.”
― The Green Road
― The Green Road
“The joy of having been standardized was that you didn't need to think beyond a certain area. Like a death handled well, a box had been put around you, and within it you could feel safe.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
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