He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be—capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined—it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities... and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

The Hours: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) - ISBN: 9781429957946