Alicia

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement