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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“- You look fine.
- Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. ”
― On Beauty
- Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. ”
― On Beauty
“You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies. ”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“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.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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