“As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.”
“Mom, why couldn't my story, my real life story have a happy ending - like in the books?""No true love story has a happy ending; one always must die and leave the other. So there's never a totally happy ending.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.”