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“He had thought that being with her would make him feel less lonely, but it only gave his loneliness a new stubborn quality, like it was planted down inside him and impossible to kill.”
— Mar 21, 2026 07:11PM
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Hailie
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“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
— Mar 21, 2026 08:43PM
Hailie
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“That was it, people moved away, he moved away. Their life in Carricklea, which they had imbued with such drama and significance, just ended like that with no conclusion, and it would never be picked back up again, never in the same way.”
— Mar 21, 2026 07:14PM
Hailie
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‘He's amused at himself, getting wrapped up in the drama of novels like that. It feels intellectually unserious to concern himself with fictional people marrying one another. But there it is: literature moves him. One of his professors calls it "the pleasure of being touched by great art."’
— Mar 21, 2026 07:02PM
Hailie
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“Lately he's consumed by a sense that he is in fact two separate people, and soon he will have to choose which person to be on a full-time basis, and leave the other person behind.”
— Mar 21, 2026 02:57PM