“Some men never recover from education.”
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions”