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“It was all gone. She knew she’d never be able to see Dobson & Dalloway for the first time, she’d never get scared of Wally Moss and hide in the ladies’ room putting on lip gloss, she’d never be able to not go someplace because Max was there . . . And she’d never ever see New York in this euphoric condition. And she and Wini would probably never have dinner on Fifty-second Street in that Japanese restaurant for as long as they lived. The first time was all gone.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage
“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could only help a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
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