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we went to sleep, I didn’t put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.
“Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“After a certain age, we put on a mask of confidence and certainty. In time, that mask gets stuck to our face and we can’t remove it.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
“One of the failures of Democracy is that the common vote guarantees a common leader who then leads us to a common apathetic predictability!”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks – for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm – and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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