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“Sinden desired something in her which she hardly even knew that she possessed. Only yesterday she had been an irrevelant child; how amazing to find herself now at life's core, the object of such brusque, blind, heedless, hungry pursuit, as if nothing else in the world mattered.”

Book:The Party

Source: The Party

“It was only then, when the man lay sleeping beside her, that Evelyn took in the whole new astonishment of her situation. She shifted very slightly away from him in her bed so that no part of her body was touching his, aware of the smell of his skin of his naked back so close beside her, so masculine and alien, an affront in a new language she couldn't read.”

Book:The Party

Source: The Party

“This is what had always happened to women when they had too much time to think: they made themselves conduits to all the passions in the universe, they dreamed open all the possibilities that sane hard-working people kept shut away.”

Book:The Master Bedroom

Source: The Master Bedroom

“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.”

Life Fate Personality Accidents

Author:Tessa Hadley

“Perhaps these earthbound types were more susceptible to the freaks and fumes of delusion, having no resistance when once they stumbled in.”

Book:The Master Bedroom

Source: The Master Bedroom

“This agony of parting came in spasms, it appeared; one had only to endure them, to get beyond them.”

Pain Grief Parting

Book:Late in the Day

Source: Late in the Day

“Because of books, the past seemed to be happening in the next room, as if I could step into it effortlessly.”

Inspirational Reading Interview

Author:Tessa Hadley

“...we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.”

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Book:Clever Girl

Source: Clever Girl

“She knew from her own experience what a great labour it was, binding up again all the mess of self, which in your extremity you had unbound.”

Book:The Past

Source: The Past

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