“Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“To love makes one solitary.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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