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“Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.”
― Trains and Lovers
― Trains and Lovers
“There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.”
― Trains and Lovers
― Trains and Lovers
“That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.”
― Trains and Lovers
― Trains and Lovers
“Love is nothing out of the ordinary, even if we think it is; even if we idealise it, celebrate it in poetry, sentimentalise it in coy valentines. Love happens to just about everyone; it is like measles or the diseases of childhood; it is as predictable as the losing of milk teeth, or the breaking of a boy's voice.”
― Trains and Lovers
― Trains and Lovers
“[...] Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know. Watch people do it. I'm from such and such place. Oh yes? So you know So-and-So? Yes! And So-and-So? No, I don't know her, but of course, there's So-and-So. That's how it works."
"I suppose so. But why?"
"Because we don't like impersonality. Maybe..."
David joined in. "Because we had to."
She asked him: "Had to what?"
"Because he had to co-operate. That's deep in the genes. We had to co-operate with one another and so we needed to know whether the stranger was a threat. [...]”
― Trains and Lovers
"I suppose so. But why?"
"Because we don't like impersonality. Maybe..."
David joined in. "Because we had to."
She asked him: "Had to what?"
"Because he had to co-operate. That's deep in the genes. We had to co-operate with one another and so we needed to know whether the stranger was a threat. [...]”
― Trains and Lovers
Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Heather’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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14 friends
35 books
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34 friends
51 books
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22 friends
33 books
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473 friends
1 book
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9 friends
118 books
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2 friends
27 books
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14 friends
0 books
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46 friends
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