"She didn't like to be talked about. Equally,……" — A. S. Byatt
"She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated."
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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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