“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“He senses a certain receptivity in her expression, like she’s gathering information about his feelings, something they have learned to do to each other over a long time, like speaking a private language.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It would be unfair to expect everyone to be as remarkable as oneself”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“In other words, she's a nice person, and Connell is beginning to understand that he actually likes nice people, that he even wants to be one”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Hi, he said. How could his feeling for her ever be anything like his feeling for other people? But part of the feeling was knowing the terrible hold he’d had over her, and still had, and could not foresee ever losing.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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