More Than it Hurts You Quotes

“Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.”
― Darin Strauss, More Than it Hurts You

“What's impossible to communicate, what you can't experience unless you're part of it, is the sensation of being in a real-life marriage. Even little chats seem to be floating in some kind of really ast liquid, and that vast liquid is the ocean of shared feelings and memories and shorthands, of understanding and misunderstandings between the couple-- their history ocean. More and more of their business tends to go underwater, and so even the important words feel only like individual waves popping up from that ocean. All that context, that history, and those impressions from real life that the couple logs and drowns in, it all washes over everything”
― Darin Strauss, More Than it Hurts You

“this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body.”
― Darin Strauss, More Than it Hurts You