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'I wondered if he felt embarrassed about showing vulnerability in front of me and whether I should have been more delicate in reassuring him. Men often want to be comforted without feeling as if they’re being comforted. He opened his mouth as if to say something and then shook his head.'

‘Do I dare ask how much?’ Arjun said.
George tutted and shook his head. ‘The money was for the children.’
‘For the museums,’ Eric corrected. ‘The gala was raising money for the museums, not the children.’
‘Oh yes. The museums then.’

I'm very in, so far, but I wonder: does it really pay that well to be a translator?

This is one of those books that I feel personally attacked by and I am all her for that!

'Sometimes, it felt like, at the core of it, I was still yearning for those ten blissful months when the two of us had shared a body, before I was shocked by the cold and the distance upon being yanked out of her. I chided myself for longing, even in my mid-thirties, for this imaginary, perhaps idealized, maternal love. '

Oh no! Am I reading this book or is it reading me to filth?

'You see, a kind of listlessness had been brewing in me for some time, the kind that threatened to tip over into despair, leaving me just sitting there, solitary and stuck, forever, in the middle of my living room.'