“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.” — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“Yes, the man said, I've often wondered why I impress people as being altogether sad, and yet I insist I am not sad, and… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what a delicious feeling it was, to be free, to be absolutely unconcerned about whether one loved or didn't love.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made me, I… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she had never… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.” — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“Why didn't I go back to New York? New York, New York; she'd never had any luck with anybody from New York. I was… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
