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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and have done with all the rest. – Jane Austen
“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom,”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“She had a vision of the work she had done on the house in the past few years, all the wooden floors and panels she had polished, all the glass, all the plate; and instead of resenting the fire for threatening to snatch these things from her, she wanted to give them all up in a sort of orgy of surrender.”
― The Little Stranger
― The Little Stranger
“That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back.”
― Little Secrets
― Little Secrets
“They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don’t like not knowing how you arrive at them. That’s where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
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