“Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“the big thing no one was expecting to happen, that no one had ever imagined could happen, was happening in all the unexpected and unimaginable ways that big things tend to happen.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“...feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“Ferguson was naked in that bed, too, and everything felt so good to him, so perfectly in accord with how he imagined it would feel, that for once in his life the real and the imagined were identical, absolutely and as never before once and the same thing, which had to make it the happiest moment of his life so far, he believed, since Ferguson was not someone who subscribed to the notion that desire fulfilled was desire disappointed, at least not in this case, where wanting Amy was no good without having Amy want him, and the miracle was that she did want him, and therefore desire fulfilled was in fact desire fulfilled, the chance to spend a few moments in the ephemeral kingdom of earthly grace.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“because he was a man who had suffered but because he was a man who had suffered and could still crack jokes.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
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