The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)

by Graeme Simsion

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.

And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept but to find someone who might accept me.

“If you really love someone,” Claudia continued, “you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”