#quotes relationships
Why was it fun for us to make each other suffer? Did that mean it wasn’t love? Surely that wasn’t what love was?
—The Idiot, Elif Batuman
The feeling of having betrayed someone was just as bad as the feeling of being betrayed. It was worse.
—The Idiot, Elif Batuman
I felt dizzy from the sense of intimacy and remoteness. Everything he said came from so thoroughly outside myself. I wouldn’t have been able to invent or guess any of it. He had told me a dream. He had typed: I know you will cheat on me. He said he would forgive me, twice. I hadn’t done anything against him, but the thought that I had, or would, was somehow exciting. I wanted to write back right away, but he had waited a whole day, so I knew I had to wait at least that long.
—The Idiot, Elif Batuman
