Manaswin

“Somehow if she'd know the worst parts, she couldn't have gone on being a haven for him...Men said they didn't tell their women about France because they didn't want to worry them. but it was more than that. He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to know and be known as deeply as possible. And the two desires were irreconcilable.”
― Pat Barker, Regeneration

“It is still possible, in an election, to use the word emigrant in such a way that it damages one's opponent,”
― Heinrich Boll

“Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.”
― Pat Barker, Regeneration

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow