Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Never before had she considered that all these experiences that had nearly demolished her had built her into something better.”
“The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb”
“Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock her off her feet”
“imagine if dignity was all we had to look forward to in old age!”
“A lifetime of quiet watchfulness had convinced her that the truth about people was seldom to be found in the things they freely admitted. There was always more below the surface than above.”
“There was something almost cruel in their self-absorption and Jean had to remind herself that it was nothing personal, just a universal symptom of the disease of love. Those afflicted could not be blamed, only pitied.”
“The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course.”
“The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and labored climb”
“they didn’t go out; the pleasure of small acts of domestic intimacy – sharing a bath, preparing meal side by side at the stove, putting clean sheets on the bed, smoking the day’s last cigarette in the garden while they looked at the night sky – these were all still delightful.”
“in the steady gaze now fixed on Jean that was”
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