“One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both.
But you have to open it to find that out.”
― The Girl with All the Gifts
But you have to open it to find that out.”
― The Girl with All the Gifts
“What did it mean, what your father said about the tall, quiet woman.
Ar, that? Let's see. Used to say there was four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.”
― The Shipping News
Ar, that? Let's see. Used to say there was four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.”
― The Shipping News
“It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and books and toys and pictures and any kind of shit they could find. As though they hoped they’d be born out of the cocoon as something else.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
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