The first comes early on in the book, where Anna is surrounded by society people who are talking about someone who had recently had an affair.
"What I think is," said Anna, toying with the glove she had pulled off, "that there are as many minds as there are heads, so there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts." (p. 163 )
The next one comes from a visit between Dolly and Anna after she has been shunned from society.
"No, no, tell me what you really think of my position. What is your opinion of it?" she (Anna) asked.
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"I don't think anything," she (Dolly) said. "I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be." (p. 709)
The third comes from Dolly's visit to Anna's house toward the end of the book, when she feels uncomfortable with the company and wishes to go home.
"Dolly did not feel particularly cheerful while they were playing. She did not like the flirting Veslovsky carried on with Anna and the general unnaturalness of grown-up people carrying on a children's game in the absence of children. But not to disconcert the others and to while away the time in some way or other, she joined the players and pretended to be enjoying herself. All that day she had the strange feeling that she was taking part in a theatrical performance with better actors than herself and that her own bad performance was spoiling the whole show" (p. 733)
I could definitely relate to the third one especially. Next time I update it will probably be about Sherlock Holmes (or Cloud Atlas, which I recently received as a random gift). Ciao!
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