“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“There is a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers or even in light years; it's the distance born from change.”
― Lacci
― Lacci
“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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