Andrew Porter > Quotes

“I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.”
― Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives, but simply accepted that there were things that women said and did that they would never understand.”
― Andrew Porter

“It's naive to assume that another person can fulfill you, or save you, if the two things are, in fact, different, and I have never felt that way with Colin. I simply believe that he fulfills an important part of me, and that Robert fulfilled another equally important part of me. The part of me Robert fulfilled is a part which I imagine Colin, even now, doesn't know exists. It is the part of me that can destroy as easily as it loves. It is the part of me that feels safest and most at home behind closed doors, in a dark bedroom, that believes that the only truth lies in the secrets we keep from each other.”
― Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter

“It makes me wonder how many other little things like that have simply disappeared from my mind, how many other little memories like that have simply vanished. - Rhinebeck; The Disappeared”
― Andrew Porter

“… and now we were waiting, waiting as it seemed we had been for many months, floating in this liminal space, not knowing what the future might hold, and yet fearing every outcome, feeling in our private moments what we always seemed to feel now: the utter fraity of our own bodies, how suddenly and inexplicably they might fail us”
― Andrew Porter