Autobiography of Us Quotes

“How little we know the ones we love. How little we know of anyone, in the end.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“Even now, I could no more chart her influence than I could the gravitational powers that rule the tides. I suppose that could be said of anyone we love, that their effects on our lives run so deeply, with such grave force, we hardly know what they mean until they are gone.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“It had never occurred to me that real life might offer the smallest portion of the happiness I found in reading.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“The truth is that I understood very little of what she was saying. Before Alex, what thrills I'd experienced I'd found in my imagination, the result of burying myself in book after book. I depended, I mean, on escape for my various joys. It had never occurred to me that real life might offer the smallest portion of the happiness I found in reading, the ordinary scaffolding of my day to day a thing I'd made a habit of burying under a thousand imagined lives, each more inviting than the last. And then she came along and it was as though life were a Christmas tree and I'd discovered the hidden switch, the whole thing lighting up in a blaze of color.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“Nothing worth anything has ever proven itself to be easy. I should think you 'd have discovered this by now.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us

“It isn't an easy business (...) Love, he said finally. I was referring to love, Rebecca.”
― Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us