“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
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