Meredith was good, so incredibly good, and Charles had fallen, without fireworks, for that goodness. But goodness did not transfer. Being with someone good does not make you good. This it would take years for Charles to comprehend.

Mai AlNakib
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The line, “Meredith was good, so incredibly good, and Charles had fallen, without fireworks, for that goodness. But goodness did not transfer. Being with someone good does not make you good” refers to the fact that although Meredith is apparently a very nice person, she is not magically good. A lot of people are nice but still pretty terrible.

Meredith might be nice for the sake of being nice or because that's what social convention says you do, but she is not fundamentally good. Charles is attracted to her but he doesn't understand how he could be so wrong about who she is. His mistake was not realizing how bad she was for him until it was too late.

Source: The Hidden Light Of Objects

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