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Sorrow and Bliss QUOTES

Sorrow and Bliss QUOTES

1 " The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

2 " I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

3 " After
Barbara’s
Contentious
Divorce,
Everyone
Felt
Genuinely
Hurt,
Including
Justifiably
Kin
Left
Melancholically
Noting
Or
Perhaps
Questioning
Rumours
Suggesting
That,
Unannounced,
Vincent’d
Wed an
uXorious
Young
Zimbabwean. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

4 " We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

5 " Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. usually on their own. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

6 " Martha,” he said afterwards, lying next to me. “Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It’s only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that’s it, it’s going to be like this forever, they change again.” That is what life was, and how it continued for three years after that. The ratios changing on their own, broken, completely fine, a holiday, a leaking pipe, new sheets, happy birthday, a technician between nine and three, a bird flew into the window, I want to die, please, I can’t breathe, I think it’s a lunch thing, I love you, I can’t do this anymore, both of us thinking it would be like that forever. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

7 " Nostalgia is the suffering cause by our unappeased earing to return' Whether or not, he said, the home we long for ever existed. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

8 " Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It’s only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that’s it, it’s going to be like this forever, they change again. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

9 " Ideally, Martha, you want to figure out the reason why you keep burning your own house down. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

10 " I'm the worst person in the world"
"No, you're not." Patrick's hand came down in a fist and he hit the arm of the sofa. "You're not the best person in the world either, which is what you really think. You're the same as everybody else. But that's harder for you, isn't it. You'd rather be one or the other. The idea that you might be ordinary is unbearable. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

11 " Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

12 " I am not saying you haven't suffered, Martha. But I am saying, grow up. You're not the only one. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

13 " It is hard to look into someone's eyes. Even when you love them, it is difficult to sustain it, for the sense of being seen through. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

14 " Suffering is unavoidable, the only thing one gest to choose is the backdrop "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

15 " I am not being whimsical, Martha. Short another, beauty is a reason to live. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

16 " Martha, why did you label every single box Miscellaneous? "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

17 " I was the victim, and victims of course are allowed to behave however they like. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

18 " First novels are autobiography and wish fulfilment. Evidently, one’s got to push all one’s disappointments and unmet desires through the pipes before one can write anything useful. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

19 " things do happen. Terrible things. The only thing any of us get to do is decide whether they happen to us or if, at least in part, they happen for us. "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss

20 " The great revelation perhaps never did come, instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.' He finishes. Isn't that brilliant girls? It's - "

― Meg Mason , Sorrow and Bliss