“Open up your heart,’ she said.
‘I’m afraid it’s broken.’
‘If I was knocking at your door, would you open it?’
‘I would, of course.’
‘Even if the door was broken.’
‘I would try.”
― Lapvona
‘I’m afraid it’s broken.’
‘If I was knocking at your door, would you open it?’
‘I would, of course.’
‘Even if the door was broken.’
‘I would try.”
― Lapvona
“Jude didn’t understand forgiveness. He was incapable of forgiveness because he was so addled by his own grief and grudges. This bad blood was what kept Jude’s heart pumping.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“Since he was little, a scraped knee or a whipped back, anything to make his body hurt, felt like the hand of God upon him.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“She was empty. ‘I am an object in the room,’ she had told herself. ‘That is all that I am.’ This belief spared her the agony of her own intelligence while she was a slave to the nuns.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
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