“Gradually these situations arise, she can see that now, just one step after another, and by the time a few weeks or months have passed, your life is no longer recognizable. You are lying to almost everyone you know. You have come to care passionately, too fully and completely, for an unsuitable person. You can no longer visualize your own future: not only five years from now, but five months, even five weeks. Everything is in disarray. All this for one person, for the relation that exists between you. Your fidelity to the idea of that reason. In the light of that, you have come to hold too loosely many other important things: the respect of your family, the admiration of your colleagues and acquaintances, even the understanding of your closest friends. Life, after all, has not slipped free of its netting, holding people in place, making sense of things. It is not possible to tear away the constraints and simply carry on a senseless existence. People, other people make it impossible. But without other people, there would be no life at all. Judgement, reprisal, disappointment, conflict: these are the means by which people remain connected to one another. Because of Margaret's friends, her former marriage, her family, colleagues, people in town, she is not entirely free to live the limitless spontaneous life that she has imagined for herself. But because of Ivan, because of whatever there is between them, she is, on the other hand, not entirely free to return to her previous existence either. The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way, she thinks, of saying: more life, more and more of life.” HumanityRelationshipsSociety Book:Intermezzo Source: Intermezzo
“Ibland är det svårt att förstå själva poängen när det saker som jag tror är meningsfulla visar sig vara betydelselösa, och de människor som borde älska mig inte gör det.” RelationshipsLife And LivingGrowing OlderFriendship And LoveMeaning Of Life QuotesFinding Your WayYoung AdultsSally Rooney Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“But it's difficult, when you've been through certain things, and people in your life don't necessarily believe you. Or they just don't want to know.” LifeRelationshipsFamilyExperiences Book:Intermezzo Source: Intermezzo
“Margaret is reminded of the way she felt when she first met Ivan: as if life slipped free of its netting. As if the netting itself had all along been an illusion, nothing real. An idea, which could not contain or describe the borderless all-enveloping reality of life.” LifeRelationshipsFateMeeting People Book:Intermezzo Source: Intermezzo