The Novel Habits of Happiness
- "Cat was not stupid, but she sometimes sounded like an ill-informed seventeen-year-old." (120)
- "The ways of the human heart were Byzantine in their complexity, Isabel thought, and one should never underestimate the resentments it could harbour." (121)
- "It's a poem by Craig Raine. I love the idea of memory as an onion--layer after layer that we strip away as we remember things. And those layers of memory make us cry, just as onions do." (139)
- "She smiled, in spite of herself, in spite of the way she felt. She felt that she could cry buckets, for no particular reason, but in spite of that she smiled." (148)
- "She held him in her gaze. My entirely beautiful one , she thought. My lover . She savoured the words in her mind. My lover . (148)
- Childhood was fleeting; life was painfully brief. Art reminded us of that--in case...
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