Sandy Rubin

“What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“an English girl might well believe
that time is how you spend your love.”
― Nick Laird, To a Fault