The Decent Proposal Quotes

“Maybe this was, in fact, the very definition of intimacy: acting with another person the way you did when you were alone.”
― Kemper Donovan, The Decent Proposal

“sometimes there was nothing better than sitting next to another person and thinking your own thoughts alongside them—nothing more intimate than being alone together. Maybe this was”
― Kemper Donovan, The Decent Proposal

“My best friend and I used to play a game sometimes...we'd divide everyone we knew into two categories based on the way they related to a single qualifying factor. It was a way to make sweeping generalizations that were wildly inaccurate, but invariably amusing to pronounce. For instance, people fall into two categories, those who listen to music to 'put' them in a certain mood, and those who listen to music because they're already 'in' a certain mood.”
― Kemper Donovan, The Decent Proposal

“The alienation born of the failure to connect was the worst sort of loneliness there was, much uglier than simply lamenting a person's absence.”
― Kemper Donovan, The Decent Proposal