“But the bond—the bond of romantic love is something else. It has so little to do with propinquity or habit or space or time or life itself. It leaps across all of them, like a rainbow—or a glance.”
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.”
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
“Every step, even a tentative one, counts.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
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