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Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

It turns out that you don’t end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay Picture Quote #1

We are each the love of someone’s life Picture Quote #1

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons Picture Quote #1

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? Picture Quote #1

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul Picture Quote #1

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another’s heart Picture Quote #1

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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love Picture Quote #1

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world Picture Quote #1

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that’s why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he’s dead Picture Quote #1

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep Picture Quote #1

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman Picture Quote #1

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You’re boneless as an anemone Picture Quote #1

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Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why Picture Quote #1

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? Picture Quote #1

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It turns out that you don’t end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay. (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) We are each the love of someone’s life (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another’s heart (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that’s why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he’s dead (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You’re boneless as an anemone (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes) The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? (Andrew Sean Greer Quotes)