“And this was a class act indeed, pretending interest in this women's bitchy monologue so that later, as sore as he felt, she would admit him in bed, and all the while secretly despising her. Just what was he doing at this woman's table if that was how he felt?” RelationshipBook QuotesLove HurtsSelf ReflectionHard Truths Book:White Palace Source: White Palace
“It's about as comfortable as a roller-coaster." "Oh? Do you fight?" "We fight, all right." "Who usually starts it?" "Me." "You? I find it hard to believe. What do you fight about?" Max sighed. "I can't seems to accept her for what she is.” RelationshipBook QuotesLove Hurts Book:White Palace Source: White Palace
“I don't berate myself for not having liked Janey better. It wasn't in my power to like her better. But I loved her and I fulfilled my obligations towards her — which just might be the very same thing, when you come right down to it.” LoveRelationshipLove HurtsBook Quote Book:White Palace Source: White Palace
“It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.” RelationshipsBook QuotesLove HurtsLiquor Book:White Palace Source: White Palace
“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?” RelationshipsBooksBook QuotesLove Hurts Book:White Palace Source: White Palace
“He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.” RelationshipsBook QuotesLove Hurts Book:White Palace Source: White Palace