“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.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― 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.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― 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.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
love. What matters is finding someone you feel more alive with.”
― 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.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
“The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
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