“I was a very autonomous and independent person with an inner life that nobody else had ever touched or perceived.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Ama dünyanın yaratıldığı boşluğun bir parçası olan bu karanlıktan sen, düşler yaratıyorsun.'
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'Oysa benim sana, düşlerimden başka verebilecek bir şeyim yoktu.”
― Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
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'Oysa benim sana, düşlerimden başka verebilecek bir şeyim yoktu.”
― Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
“You think everyone you like is special, she said. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make them feel like they're different from everyone else. You're doing it with Nick, you did it with me once.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Life can have an ironic geometry. Starting from the age of thirteen or fourteen I had aspired to a bourgeois decorum, proper Italian, a good life, cultured and reflective. Naples had seemed a wave that would drown me. I didn’t think the city could contain life forms different from those I had known as a child, violent or sensually lazy, tinged with sentimental vulgarity or obtusely fortified in defense of their own wretched degradation.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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