Tag: Fiction
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Good Material
“Getting dumped is never really about getting dumped. […] It’s about every rejection you’ve ever experienced in your entire life.”
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The Remains of the Day
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
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The Happy Couple
“Loneliness wasn’t having no one. Loneliness was the gap between what you hoped for and what you got.”
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The Cement Garden
“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.”
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Blood Orange
“And actions have consequences. I know I keep saying the phrase, but it’s one of my therapist’s favourites, and I think it’s a really good one to bear in mind.”
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The History of My Sexuality
“The truth is, sexuality is like plumbing: super-annoying when it’s out of order, and you can’t really live without it.”
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Between You and Me
“Sometimes Mari tried to imagine her life without Elisabeth, and what came to her was a disturbing sense of formlessness and lack, random elements that added up to nothing.”
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