Nat

“It's about as comfortable as a roller-coaster."
"Oh? Do you fight?"
"We fight, all right."
"Who usually starts it?"
"Me."
"You? I find it hard to believe. What do you fight about?"
Max sighed. "I can't seems to accept her for what she is.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

“After so much apprehension, the dreaded scene, now that he was in it, was nowhere near as horrifying as his fantasies.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

“He was supposed to be in love with her, for chrissakes. Yet the truth of it was, this news of her recent string of successes was paining him. He was jealous. He didn't know what he was jealous of, precisely, but the bitter fact remained: whatever was making Nora glow like this, it had nothing to do with him.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace