Lucía’s Reviews > The Marriage Plot > Status Update

What was it about crazy people that made you want to shun them? The futility of reasoning with them, certainly, but also something else, something like a fear of contagion.

The worse part was that, as years passed, these memories became,in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the evidence that life wasn’t fair. If you weren’t a lucky child, you didn’t know you weren’t lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about.

If you grew up in a house were you were't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up with emotionally stunted parents, who were unhappy in their marriage and prone to visit that unhappiness on their children, you didn't know they were doing this. It was just your life. (...) in all these cases the damage was done before you knew you were damaged.

You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences.

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It was almost worth it. This dependency was what Leonard had guarded himself against feeling all his life, but he couldn’t do it any more. He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

Todos los padres y educadores tienen una única y gran misión: estimular a sus hijos y alumnos para encontrar su verdadero camino hacia la plenitud personal.

The drug companies had it the wrong way around. Instead of starting with an illness and developing a drug to treat it, they developed drugs and then tried to figure out what they were good for.

Every letter was a love letter.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

The fact that (...) Mitchell remained heartbroken over Madeleine —even though he hadn't gone out with Madeleinte— meant one of two things: either Mitchell's love for Madeleine was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken, and the "emotion" he felt for Madeleine (...) was only a perverted form of self-love. Not love at all, in other words.