“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend,” – Graham Greene, The End of the Affair.
quotes
“There were people whom you positively ached to please.” – Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman.
“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.“ – Haruki Murakami, IQ84.
“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you’ll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace.” ― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies.
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” ― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird.
“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids.
“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.” ― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education.
“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning.
“There’s an intimacy in listening to somebody’s lies, I’ve always thought—you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.” ― Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes.
“It seemed important to convey that I understood. Isn’t that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don’t?” — Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers