As a Friend Quotes

“Everyone knows how much I love you
All your gestures
Have become my gestures”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Pero lo que significa y cómo lo significa y quién lo dice y a quién le toca morir así; me gustaría creer que hay esperanza, digamos, en el hecho de poner atención a las palabras.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Oh, when you get down to the licklog, just to be a good friend. To be consequent to those around me. I guess I can't see any virtue higher than that.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Within ten minutes of meeting, we'd exchanged love letters from the corners of our eyes.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Sure, art doesn't save anybody the way a sack of rice does. But that doesn't mean it's worthless. There're plenty of ways of living in the world and among words and some of them are a fuck of a lot more predatory than others.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Remember when I was lying on your lap and you cleaned my ears with a Q-tip? What a strange, complex intimacy, your at once maternal and sexual tenderness.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“He would punctuate the remarkable things he said with silences, his extravagant gestures with absence.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend