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'I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance,' Leo says at one point, 'that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.'

Only fictions. But we all live there, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives

The child inevitably haunts the adult

Inverted hysterias
Nowadays girls make boundaries. The hysterics wanted to explode them. Anorexics build them up.

When you’re young, I think it’s harder to know what you want, how much of others you’re willing to take in

I suppose we are all the products of our parents’ joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us

When I’m looking at a beautiful, sexy woman in a picture, I’m always both her and the person who’s looking at her. The eroticism comes from the fact that I can imagine I’m him looking at me

I always felt that there was an invisible wire between them, stretched nearly to a breaking point

I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation