“Malcom's words echoed in his head. As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty. Diamonds might be blinding in their beauty, but they were also the hardest and sharpest gems in the world. They could cut you or grind you down, smash and slice you apart. Malcolm, deranged with love, had not thought of that. But Julian could think of nothing else.”
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“You," she said. He laughed. "Who else?" She said, "Nobody else in this world.”
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”