Libby

“To sit across the table and talk with someone you love is itself a complex engagement, with an exhaustingly subtle flow of information; to go to bed with someone--to carry your conversation into the realm of the body, a realm of insecurity and fear as well as pleasure--was always fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand another person and make yourself understood.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“...they hadlived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will be gone and the other will be in mourning.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“What matters, finally, isn't finding the kind of person you think you should
love. What matters is finding someone you feel more alive with.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening