"Bearable separately," she... «Island»

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    woopz
    13 сентября 2016

    "Bearable separately," she answered. "Especially my father. But quite unbearable together—unbearable because they couldn't bear one another. A bustling, cheerful, outgoing woman married to a man so fastidiously introverted that she got on his nerves all the time—even, I suspect, in bed. She never stopped communicating, and he never started. With the result that he thought she was shallow and insincere, she thought he was heartless, contemptuous and without normal human feelings."

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