“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