“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Beautiful people lived in a different world, had different relations with people. From the beginning they were raised for love.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“She has seen dieback across the West. Aspens are withering. Grazed on by everything with hooves, cut off from rejuvenating fire, whole groves are vanishing. Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.”
― A Long Petal of the Sea
― A Long Petal of the Sea
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