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“If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.”
― A Ladder to the Sky
― A Ladder to the Sky

“I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies

“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies

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