Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
Eleanor CattonReason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
Eleanor CattonWhatโs the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?
Eleanor CattonTo experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
Eleanor Catton