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“The girl (...) pushed against my handbag and then my arm. When her father turned around he said: Rebecca, look what you're doing! You're kicking that woman's arm! I tried to catch his eye and say: it's fine, it's no problem. But he didn't look at me. To him, my arm was not important. He was only concerned with making his child feel bad, making her feel ashamed.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“According to you, the only way to love someone is to let them treat you like shit.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Como se tivesse percebido a presença de um terceiro em sua casa, a quem, por motivos não explicados, deveria falar de si mesmo, e para não ter de fazer o longo discurso que até a vida mais simples necessita para dizer de si mesma algo que valha a pena, o violoncelista sentou-se ao piano, e, após uma breve pausa para que a assistência se acomodasse, atacou a composição.”
― Death with Interruptions
― Death with Interruptions
“E quando já não tiverem mais nada a dizer ou quando as palavras começarem a ir por um lado e os pensamentos por outro, então se verá se algo poderá suceder que valha a pena recordar quando formos velhos.”
― Death with Interruptions
― Death with Interruptions
“With other people I generally had a sense of what to take seriously and what not no, but with Bobbi it was impossible. She never seemed to be either fully serious or fully joking. As a result I had learned to adopt a kind of Zen acceptance of the weird things she said.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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