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“More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch

“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch

“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy

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