He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro’s wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.
-Shirley Hazzard
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