“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor.”
― Perfect Chemistry
― Perfect Chemistry
“Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.”
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“I know well enough how people in love drag the name of the loved one into every conversation, simply to utter that magical word, to savor it on the tongue.”
― The Rebel Angels
― The Rebel Angels
“Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can’t realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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