Quotables

“That’s the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.

“To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”

“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”

“(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me: he withdrew he went too far into solitude and knew — he must’ve known — you never come back from there”

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”

“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”

“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.”

“with my teeth i understand my lover’s waist we worship at each other’s throats i am not afraid of men only of forgiving my father without meaning to”

“I wait and ache. I think I am healing.”

“You disappear? Yes and then come back. Moments of death I call them.”

“Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time…”