The memoir is, at its core, an act of resurrection. Memoirists re-create the past, reconstruct dialogue. They summon meaning from events that have long been dormant. They braid the clays of memory and essay and fact and perception together,
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“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
“Do you like her'
''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.”
― The Price of Salt
''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.”
― The Price of Salt
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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 life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
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