Henry, Himself
Stewart O'Nan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.”
“There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.”
“Like a funeral, a birthday wasn't yours but for the people who loved you.”
“Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going.”
“While she was away, he'd forgotten how powerfully she broadcast her feelings, filling the house like a kind of nerve gas.”
“Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.”
“Late in life, after his mother had died, his father cried at baptisms and funerals and sappy movies on TV, age stripping away a final protective layer. Now Henry could feel the same softening taking place inside him, a helpless grief for the past and boundless pity for the world, and that was right too. No fool like an old fool.”
“Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult.”
“the idea of luck and happiness. How much of life was accidental and how much was work, and practically,”
“While a necessary lesson, it was always a disappointment to discover he wasn't the fastest or smartest or best at everything.”
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