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“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
― The Secret of Lost Things
― The Secret of Lost Things
“Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?”
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“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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