Subtle Bodies Quotes

“It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that … that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be …”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“He was mixing up friendship with acts and atmospheres from the deluded matrix the boys had lived in for a heartbeat in the seventies. She thought, I am your friend, you idiot, and I let you into my perfect body, for Christ’s sake.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies

“People who had children assuming they were creating future friends were rolling the dice.”
― Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies