bookish quotes

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, love grows there.”

“There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all.”

“She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.”

“I’m not spending my life pretending I’m something I’m not, or making myself smaller and quieter, just because someone else thinks I should.

“I swear to god the whole universe falls away and all I think of is wanting.”

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find where it was and become a part of it.”

“I could not run without having to run forever.”

Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

And I eat men like air.”

I do it exceptionally well.”

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? so close you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”

“The thing about mountains is that you have to keep climbing them, and that it’s always hard, but that there’s a view from the top, every time, when you finally get there.”

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.”

“The thing I realize is that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”

“If I think about him, he won’t be completely gone either. Just because they’re dead, they don’t have to be. And neither do we.”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”