Asa, as I Knew Him Quotes

“Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow and made it sweet.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“sa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.
[…]
Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,
slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“Just to get through life was no ambition. It was the opposite of ambition.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“Asa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.
[…]
Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,
slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“Can human beings love each other? Must we always love an image we've labored over secretly, never love the living soul with all its mire and murk?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“My friends have hated Asa, first for monopolizing my mind, then for the endless discussions of him they were subjected to, finally, for making me unhappy.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him