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“There are many ways of hurting without words. It is silence that shapes us.”

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“We never allowed our parents. They're unhappiness I said and we never allowed them their individual individuality before they were shackled to parenthood”.”

Book:The Anthropologists

Source: The Anthropologists

“It is the stuff of fiction that a single conversation can change the course of a life; that we will return to it again and again, wishing to undo it. Even if we could, so much would remain. There are many ways of hurting, without words. It's silence that shapes us.”

Family Childhood

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“I don't think you should try and teach anyone how to talk about their family," I said. "It's arrogant.”

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything aside.”

Childhood Mothers

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescence, which was both a physical and an emotional landscape.”

Memories Childhood

Book:White on White

Source: White on White

“In his love for these peculiar places, he was like an anthropologist, or an accountant. i couldn't tell which, because I was never certain what lay beneath M's fascinations. Sometimes I imagined they were a sign of sorrow, a wish to care for and preserve things on the brink of disappearance. Other times, I thought that they were nothing more than a tedious desire to accumulate.”

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“I thought of the lives stacked in crevices of the city, unraveling at every moment.”

Unraveling Other Lives

Book:White on White

Source: White on White

“I had met Lena at the birthday picnic of a woman named Sharon. She and her husband, Paul, organised a monthly gathering of expatriates, which I went to mostly without Manu, because he objected to the formal pursuit of friendship.”

Book:The Anthropologists

Source: The Anthropologists