It’s good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life – in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit you will never be happy like that again is hard.
– WILLIAM BOYD Any Human Heart
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“He does not know if he loves her or not, but with her he had known love, had experienced that cloudy inflation of self which makes us infants again and tips each moment with a plain excited purpose,…”
– JOHN UPDIKE Rabbit is Rich
…some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain,…
– EVAN S. CONNELL Mrs. Bridge
“When life is a weariness and escape impossible, it is wonderful to have a friend who can bring us peace with the touch of a hand.”
– HALLDOR LAXNESS Independent People
“Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there’d been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found out what you had to have.”
– TOBIAS WOLFF “Two Boys and a Girl” in The Night in Question
“He had been through enough of the battles of love to regard love almost as a disease, a notion present in former times when the world seemed younger and wiser.”
– JIM HARRISON “Revenge” in Legends of the Fall
“But having sex is a fact and describable, while making love is an illusion and indescribable.”
– GORE VIDAL Two Sisters
“I miss the sweet specificity of marriage, its firm ballast and sail.”
– RICHARD FORD The Sportswriter
