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The Laughter
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No matter how many times you went to the Provost’s home, the sharply uniformed help would hand guests an ivory-colored brochure with a map to the many pieces of art in that house. In the past few years, I had started to collect these and
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“that my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge? I am supposed to love Nick despite all his shortcomings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks. But clearly, neither of us does. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“To be born in that city—I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila’s pessimism—is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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