“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Beautiful Losers
― Beautiful Losers
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
From 100 Love Sonnets”
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in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
From 100 Love Sonnets”
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“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”
― Transparent Things
― Transparent Things
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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