The Crossing Gate Quotes

“How awful it was. Early maturity.
Still, the most frightening reality was my inability to mature when the time arrived.”
― Asiel R. Lavie, The Crossing Gate

“A moment passed before he peeked at my necklace, and his eyes became tender. “You know, Leen . . . love isn’t always a crazy, obsessive emotion. Love is understanding and respecting each other, and giving space to grow and sacrifice and compromise. It’s about being there for each other, not running away. And it certainly isn’t treason.”
― Asiel R. Lavie, The Crossing Gate

“Sometimes, imperfection is perfection”
― Asiel R. Lavie, The Crossing Gate

“Whenever I try to forget you, Erick, something brings you back into my memory. And whenever I want to drive emotions away from me, they quickly return as thoughts or dreams . . . or the words of an old woman.
Perhaps loneliness has forced me to hang on to the faint spectrum of your memory—kept my heart longing in painstaking eagerness. But no . . . no more, and not again. How long can my heart withstand the seesaw of emotions?
If I had one wish, I would want you and me to be two parallel lines, either on flat or spherical earth . . . never to meet.”
― Asiel R. Lavie, The Crossing Gate