Thought provoking
The other life she might have lived, had only every single thing been different.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The only force comparable to an Ainsworth enthusiasm was the speed with which it passed.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
“The thing with the new world,” the tuba had said once, “is it’s just horrifically short on elegance.”
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Station Eleven: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
She was one of those women who cannot cry; whom it hurts as it hurts a man. It was like ripping something out of her, her sobbing.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
Something in her proud, honourable soul had crystallised out hard as rock.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
“A bad wife is like Winter in a house.”
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Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Zero to One Peter Theil
It amused Mrs Touchet and it interested her: how hard it proves to take occupancy of our own feelings. There is a tendency to loan them out to others, especially the dead.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
love should give a sense of freedom, not of prison.