– Perhaps without a mother one can no longer be young. –
– British food was the current catastrophe of Ruth’s life. –
– The agony of becoming. This is what she experiences. The young girl. She would like to be someone, anyone else. She wants, vaguely, to be something more than she is. But she does not know what that is, or how one goes about doing such things. –
–Celebrity is a drug we take, only afterwards we realize we are ugly and no one loves us. –
– Being a girl is like always being a tourist, always conscious of yourself, always seeing yourself as if from the outside. –
– He bought her the books he thought she should read, which were mostly the obvious books, because he wasn’t that well-read either, but liked to see himself as her brilliant tutor. –
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