“Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future”
“His voice deepened. "Sign them. We´re in the bedroom and i´m giving you an order.”
“Love is so complicated. I’m glad I don’t suffer from it and hope I never do. It’s amazing how smart, strong people turn into frail, frightened idiots once their hearts are involved.”
“You are not the first female to strike me, my mate did it often. She grew testy at time."
Like perhaps when you opened your mouth...”
“Let me go.”
“No.” He pulled her closer. “Never.”
“You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.”
“all I want to know.” “You just”
“silence. Finally, he said, “So you and”
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life. And to make its flight perceptible novelists are obliged, by wildly accelerating the beat of the pendulum, to transport the reader in a couple of minutes over ten, or twenty, or even thirty years. At the top of one page we have left a lover full of hope; at the foot of the next we meet him again, a bowed old man of eighty, painfully dragging himself on his daily walk about the courtyard of an almshouse, scarcely replying to what is said to him, oblivious of the past.”
“Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.”
“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”
“Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.”
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