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“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
“If she does everything right at work, things usually go as planned, but it doesn’t matter if she does absolutely everything in the universe correctly as a mother: the very worst can still happen.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― The Reader
― The Reader
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