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“He understood that it only took one lunatic and a torch to bring everything to ruin.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Things, once gone, can't be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can't be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can't be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn't forget, because we have been changed forever.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story