vita’s Reviews > Madonna in a Fur Coat > Status Update

“for as long as i lived, i would travel far and wide, meeting with people whose languages i did or did not know, and everywhere i went, i would be looking for maria puder. in every pair of eyes, i would be searching for the madonna is a fur coat” good god. what the fuck.

“just as warm sunlight can, by passing through a lens, so too can love”

“if a person truly has the ability to love, then he can never monopolize his beloved. and neither can his beloved monopolize him. the more he spreads his love, the more he adores his one and only true love. when love spreads, it does not diminish”

“some things we never know we need until we need them. and now, when i looked back on my life, it seemed empty and idle, if only because she’d not been in it… i’d lived more during the past two weeks than in all the years of my life put together”

“all my life, i’d kept my heart closed. i had never known love. but now, all at once, the doors had been flown open. my unspent passions had been released, to illuminate this one magnificent woman”

“never before had i felt such happiness. i could feel my heart opening, as if for the first time. how was it that a person could bring such happiness to another without really doing anything at all? a friendly greeting, an innocent smile… and at that moment i wanted nothing else. i was the richest man in the world” RAHHHHHH OMG

wow. i’m SO into this book

“to me, you are the most precious person in the world… you may be right to have no confidence in others. but can’t there be exceptions? can’t there? don’t forget, you’re human, too… you’re being selfish, and for nothing!”

“for wasn’t there sufficient pleasure to be had in silent patience- in viewing others’ vices with compassion and enjoying their vulgarities?”