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“…it seemed the great lessons of my life had all been learned through the renunciation of fear. Fear was once again breaking the shell around me so that something else could spring to life.”

“I’d like to know: once you’re happy what happens? What comes next?”

“I feel safest of all when no one knows where I am”

“He heard her say once: “when you are hurt you travel as far as you can from the place of the hurt,” and when he examined her meaning found she was referring to a change of quarters within fifth blocks in the city of New York.”

“It was as if he had thrown a net around her by the pleasure she wanted again, by his creation of a Sabina she wanted to erase, by a poison he alone had the cure for, of a mutual guilt which only an act of love could transmute into something else than a one-night encounter with a stranger”

“…seemed to gaze beyond her at all women who had dissolved into one, but who might, at any moment again become dissolved into all. This was the gaze Sabina had always encountered in Don Juan, everywhere…it was the alchemy of desire fixing itself upon the incarnation of all women into Sabina for a moment but as easily by a second process able to alchemize Sabina into many others.”

“…proving to her once more the disproportionate between her feelings and external truth.”

“It pierced me as a beam pierces darkness, singing Come to me; all things will be forgiven if only you come to me. I am more alone than I have ever been.”

“Hasn’t it always been this way? Has anyone ever cared to teach you anything?”

“I tell you, he is beyond all account. He knows no limit and so he has no limit. But why!”

“Maybe she wants to die at the damned window. Why the hell not?”

Part 2 Chapter 11 had me openly weeping as I drove to work. Wow. This book is really touching in ways I did not anticipate.

this book is already making me emotional?? what??

“I wanted to be enclosed forever with people who believed I could be good if I wanted to be.”

[re: rock music] “so eloquent of dread it was, this music. The world just didn’t have it in any form before.”

Cryingggggg