Margaret

“In this world there is no place for sadness. No place; not one.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement