In the end, he said he didn’t really know who I was. And he had a point.
“New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you.”
― Before We Were Strangers
― Before We Were Strangers
“The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time. When you hear her sound, when you breathe in her scent, you share it with all the people walking beside you on the street, in the subway, or gazing from a tall building across Central Park. You know at once that you are alive, and that life is beautiful, precious, and fleeting.”
― Before We Were Strangers
― Before We Were Strangers
“We think it’s our fault if the other person leaves us, that we could have done something to stop it. We imagine that we could have acted in such a way as to preserve their desire to be together. The idea behind “let you go” is pleasant; there’s even something reassuring about it. It’s a fiction that I, too, would like to believe in.”
― My Husband
― My Husband
“Poor foolish girl was probably just in love.”
― Before We Were Strangers
― Before We Were Strangers
“She looked up at me with bloodshot eyes and said in the most sincere way I’d ever heard, “I did everything I could.” And it terrified me that now I knew what that meant.”
― Yours Truly
― Yours Truly
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