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“But that is the night of the curse of being an adult: she must always talk as if she is in control of the situation, as if she is not just a terrified child at her core.”

“…but the truth is this: bad people are continually rewarded, while the good are ignored, even at Christmastime. It's enough to break anyone's spirit.”

“Love does funny things to people, when it serves to harm and not heal. It makes fools of the most rational of men, and the kindest of women cruel. It makes one think most strangely. It changes a person.”

“A little self-discipline, a little determination, and an absolute refusal to indulge her own weakness: that was the best prescription for art, as it was for life.”

“Ah, I see you have been comforting him. Poor old fellow! he needs it. No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart”

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times - clears the air as other rain does.”

“You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms.”

‘"Love is messy," I tell her. "Sometimes you hurt the people you love. And sometimes you love the people who hurt you."’

“When you fall in love, it's because you find someone who fills all your empty spaces.
When you fall out of love, it's because you realize that you're both broken.”

“That's the thing about being obsessed with the past. It keeps you from having to notice the present."

"Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember."

"Maybe in order to grow and become better, part of us has to die to make room for that new thing"

“What’s love, if not art?”

“You know what they say. If you need the right man for the job...get a woman."

“I once read that every story is a love story.
Love of a person, a country, a way of life.
Which means, of course, that all tragedies are about losing what you love.”

“Death is scary and confusing and painful, and facing it alone shouldn't be the norm.”

“She's such a spectacular woman - by which I mean she, herself, is a spectacle. But she's also deeply, deeply human.”

‘"Relationships are complex," Evelyn says. "People are messy, and love can be ugly. I'm inclined to always err on the side of compassion."’

‘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.’

‘"So do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear. Don't be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear."’

“But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”

“‘It's no kindness to the right sort of wife,' he said, 'to make her a widow'”

“In the past I would have told myself that I wanted to die. Now I understand too late that all I ever wanted was to live.”

“Beauty is the name of something that does not exist
Which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me.
It signifies nothing.
And yet why do I say of things: they are beautiful?”

"I think art is important. It enlarges your life. Loving art is important. Collecting anything you love is important. But collecting isn't everything."

“I did not know falling in love would feel so much like falling.”

“When you're a kid, life feels like the beginning of an Impossible Dream, new and wonderful and full of promise - but then you grow up and you realize it's all shit.”