Eva Heller Quotes

#1. Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps even her ex? Such spontaneous acts really only worked with men left over from earlier in your life.

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#2. There's no point in clinging to illusions.

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#3. It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

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#4. Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.

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#5. He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?

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#6. He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.

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#7. Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

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#8. Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

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#9. Sexual frustration' - it always sounds like the only frustrated ones are the ones who don't do it. What a laugh. The frustrated ones are the ones who do do it! The ones who don't can at least preserve some illusions.

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