Zoë Heller Quotes

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• I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or…
• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure…
• If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
• Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question…
• When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
• We are bound by the secrets we share.
• ...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
• It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...
• I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger…
• It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me-…

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