Love Invents Us Quotes

“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“He read the first one all the way through and breathed in the love, that hot, hurting feeling under your ribs...Love that made life matter even when you were just looking back at it.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us