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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”

“With only a little subterfuge he can live two entirely separate existences, never confronting the ultimate question of what to do with himself or what kind of person he is”

This book is going to ruin me

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was somewhere every far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it. …. “All that she knew was that when it started, she wouldn’t need to imagine it anymore.”

Page 11 and my girlhood has been summed up in one devastating paragraph.