"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 ..."
- Andrew Sean Greer
"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 al..."
"When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother."
"Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit."
"Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape."
"How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding."
"So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman."
"It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer tha..."
"Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, mu..."
"How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?"