Amy Bloom > Quotes

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
― amy bloom

“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.”
― Amy Bloom

“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
― Amy Bloom

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”
― Amy Bloom, Come to Me

“You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.”
― Amy Bloom

“Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.”
― Amy Bloom

“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“A blind man can see how much I love you”
― Amy Bloom (Author)

“I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave. ”
― Amy Bloom

“There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.”
― Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

“In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is, that in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.”
― Amy Bloom

“they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.”
― Amy Bloom, Come to Me

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn’t get over a bee sting.”
― Amy Bloom, Lucky Us

“Love is not a pie.”
― Amy Bloom, Come to Me

“Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. ”
― Amy Bloom

“And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.”
― Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us

“You want the guy who’ll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It’s not about talking the talk,”
― Amy Bloom, Lucky Us

“Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits.”
― Amy Bloom

“I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.”
― Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

“I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.”
― Amy Bloom, White Houses

“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
― Amy Bloom

“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.”
― Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

“These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky.”
― Amy Bloom, Lucky Us

“moving forward only because backward wasn’t possible.”
― Amy Bloom, Lucky Us

“Every woman’s body is an intimate landscape. The hills, the valleys, the narrow ledges, the riverbanks, the sudden eruptions of soft or crinkling hair. Here are the plains, the fine dry slopes. Here are the woods, here is the smooth path to the only door I wish to walk through. Eleanor’s body is the landscape of my true home.”
― Amy Bloom, White Houses

“She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.”
― Amy Bloom, Away