Cytaty z książki «Меня зовут Люси Бартон», strona 2

Существуют вещи, определяющие наш путь, и мы редко можем четко указать на них.

Просто удивительно, как из-за какой-то мелочи наступает момент истины. Можно отказаться от детей, которых всегда хотела, можно снести критические замечания относительно твоего прошлого или манеры одеваться, но достаточно одной фразы – и твоя душа съеживается и говорит: «О!»

“But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can’t even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: This is mine, this is mine, this is mine.”

“I will grab myself and hurl onward through life, blind as a bat, but on I go!”

“He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.”

“There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?”

“You are wasting time by suffering twice”

“The light from the Chrysler Building shone like the beacon it was, of the largest and best hopes for mankind and its aspirations and desire for beauty”

“How, for example, do you learn that it is impolite to ask a couple why they have no children? How do you set a table? How do you know if you are chewing with your mouth open if no one has ever told you? How do you even know what you look like if the only mirror in the house is a tiny one high above the kitchen sink, or if you have never heard a living soul say that you are pretty, but rather, as your breasts develop, are told by your mother that you are starting to look like one of the cows in the Pedersons’ barn?”

Нет смысла страдать дважды.