The Rosie Effect

by Graeme Simsion

My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.

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I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others’ emotions and inability to experience their own.

But I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.