More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
And everyone. It’s so easy to romanticize another person from a distance, only to be disappointed when you actually get to know her.
whether “See you soon” was his way of saying that he missed me.
At the same time, friendship often encompasses a measure of attraction, a hungry curiosity about the other person. What separates the strong feeling of a new friendship from falling in love can be nothing more than a linguistic formality. And emotions pay no heed to language. All those vague, homeless desires that hover between people every day like a quivering field of energy do not disappear because they don’t have a name. They might even grow stronger for that very reason.
How do you mourn a relationship like that? A relationship that had been more real than any other in my life, but had never actually existed in reality, never manifested itself in public, never been designated by a term that encapsulated its true nature.
It is easy to believe that romantic love is the high point of life. I once thought so too.
