Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

Gregory Maguire
About This Quote

Liir is a character in the book "The Corrections," by Jonathan Franzen. The book is about life and family and love and death and everything else you can think of. One of the main characters is Liir, a young man who is moving from Minnesota to Connecticut with his family. He has lost his wife in childbirth, and he is very sad about that.

He has been trying to leave Minnesota for some time now, but he can't quite bring himself to go. The land of Connecticut holds out on him, though, and he feels like he shouldn't be there. He feels like his life is no longer his own, that he doesn't have control over it anymore.

Source: Son Of A Witch

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