Perfect Strangers Quotes

“People make the mistake of thinking that experiencing an emotion means you have to do something about it. In fact, you don’t have to do anything with your emotions at all. You can simply acknowledge them as they arrive – oh, look, that old bitch Envy is back again – then go about your business.
It’s the clinging to emotion that causes suffering … A wiser choice is to let it go and breathe.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“There exists a field, beyond all notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Just feel me. Just feel me and breathe.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“This casual summer fling has the potential to burn the whole city down and leave a path of smoking ruins in its wake.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Real romantics never go for the cliché because passion is so utterly individual.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Meeting you is a gift, and it will always be a gift, no matter how long we have together. So what I promised still stands: I’m yours until September. If you still want me.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“I’m spinning, lost in a haze of pleasure, lost under the magic we make together, two perfect strangers who’ve found something rare.
We’ve unearthed a treasure most people dig for their entire lives and never find.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Suffering is the great equalizer of humankind.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“But the thing people don’t realize is that the past is a living, breathing entity that exists apart from our wishes or best intentions. It’s not gone, and it’s certainly not invisible. Its fingerprints are smeared all over every moment of the present, its weight drags on every second of the future, its consequences echo down every hallway of our lives. We can no more rid ourselves of the past than we could stop the earth from spinning.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Our bones have a wisdom that our hearts will always follow, regardless of the roads down which our rational minds think we should head.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“No one can offer you proof of reality, not even Einstein himself. But just because it can’t be proven doesn’t mean the sun won’t rise tomorrow. It will.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“I hope you won’t take this the wrong way, but…no. I don’t need to get to know you better first. Everything I need to know is what happens to me when I look into your eyes.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“The note is stuck directly under the line I ridiculed during dinner: “Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“These kisses of his…they’re demanding and possessive. They’re hungry and deep. They’re the kisses of a man who wants more of a woman—who wants everything—and isn’t going to stop until he gets it.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Writing is different than speaking. It’s much harder to be coherent out loud than it is on paper.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. ~ Ernest Hemingway”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Be ready to tell me everything you want me to do to you in bed.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“No questions. No strings. You were right: it’s the only way it’ll work.”
Dismayed, I stare at him. “But James--”
“Until September comes and you walk out of my life forever, we’re going to spend every day as if its out last. No regrets. No looking back or forward. Just being in the moment. Making every minute count. Making memories we both can treasure after we go back to our real lives.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“But the thing people don’t realize is that the past is a living, breathing entity that exists apart from our wishes or best intentions. It’s not gone, and it’s certainly not invisible. Its fingerprints are smeared all over every moment of the present, its weight drags on every second of the future, its consequences echo down every hallway of our lives.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Love is what binds us together eternally, the only thing that survives after death…or the end of a psychotic episode.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“two perfect strangers who’ve found something rare.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“What she really means is Try not to remember. Try to stop blaming yourself. Try to let the past go. As if. If letting the past go were as easy as simply deciding to do it, I wouldn’t be here in the first place, thousands of miles from home. But the thing people don’t realize is that the past is a living, breathing entity that exists apart from our wishes or best intentions. It’s not gone, and it’s certainly not invisible. Its fingerprints are smeared all over every moment of the present, its weight drags on every second of the future, its consequences echo down every hallway of our lives. We can no more rid ourselves of the past than we could stop the earth from spinning.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Don’t you just hate it when a man opens his mouth and ruins everything?”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“I’m trying to find a fatal flaw for insurance.” “Insurance? Against what?” I open my mouth but stop myself before blurting, Against falling in love with you.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Beauty and desirability have nothing to do with the number on your birth certificate or scale. The United States of Advertising has made everybody insecure about their looks.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Then, to my total astonishment, my ex-husband starts to cry. He pulls me into his arms, buries his face in my neck, and sobs like a child, his embrace so tight I’m left breathless. Never, not once during all the years I’ve known him, has he ever shown anything approaching this level of emotion. If someone had told me before now that he was actually even able to cry, I would’ve laughed. It would be more plausible that the rock of Gibraltar would shed tears.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Yeah, I tried group chanting with monks. I’ve tried everything. Grief sends people in desperate search of any kind of relief.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“know only too well the kind of hits you have to take from life before you grow hard.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers