Life was great and life was terrible and life could not be one without the other – that was all I knew, which was not to say that I understood it.
– PETER MATHIESSEN Bone by Bone
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And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.
– CHRISTINA HENRIQUEZ “The Wide, Pale Ocean” in Come Together, Fall Apart
“To dream is happiness!”
– ZANE GREY Riders of the Purple Sage
“Women understood each other, or so he assumed, for someone must understand them and he knew he did not.”
– ROSE TREMAIN The Colour
. . .and perhaps it’s middle age, you begin to feel rather possessive, protective about your thoughts, anxious to get them down on paper before they fade away . . .
– DAVID LODGE Thinks . . .
“It was always a mystery, other people’s experience of sex.”
– DAVID LODGE Souls and Bodies
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple: it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
– MARIO VARGAS LLOSA The Storyteller
“There is no way certain to bind a woman to you, heart and soul, as to show her that you trust her in everything.”
– ANTHONY TROLLOPE The Claverings
