Quotes from The Lost Language of Cranes

David Leavitt ·  352 pages

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“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes


“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes


“Sometimes I think you are doomed to happiness”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes


“She looked toward the window, smiling away her life”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes


“Philip understood that there were people in the world like Eliot for whom love and sex came easy, without active solicitation, like a strong wind to which they had only to turn their faces and it would blow over them. He also understood that he was not one of those people. Instead, he seemed always to be eking out signals, interpreting glances, trying to extract some knowledge of another person's feelings from the most trivial conversations. Nothing came easy for him, and more often than not, nothing came of any of his efforts.”
― David Leavitt, quote from The Lost Language of Cranes



About the author

David Leavitt
Born place: in Pittsburgh, The United States
Born date June 23, 1961
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