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

“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