Why treat the people closest to you like strangers?
Sophie HannahLook at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.
Sophie HannahTags: trauma
She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?
Sophie HannahHe didn't subscribe to the view...that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.
Sophie HannahHe wondered how many new starts a person was entitled to, how many times one could say it was the other person's fault and truly believe it.
Sophie HannahToo much self-esteem, thought Simon: the real curse of our age.
Sophie HannahSometimes the person everyone is afraid of alarming or offending has a slightly less fixed idea about what sort of person they are, and they’re neither alarmed nor offended. Unaware that others have carved their likes and dislikes in the psychological equivalent of stone, they dare to make exceptions to their own rules in a way that their nearest and dearest might not.
Sophie HannahWall of lies?’ Proust muttered. ‘Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?
Sophie HannahNo, thanks,’ said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.
Sophie HannahI’m low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,’ Simon told him. ‘You got the brunt of it. This time.
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