Quotes from book

Too Much Happiness

“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”

“Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.”

“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”

“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind… When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”