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> [It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/it-was-strange-when-you-reduced-even-a-fledgling-love-affair-to-its/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

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## More by Susan Vreeland

> [“The winsome lilt of Digna humming in the garden. Her knowing, almost teasing look, not quite a smile, when she knew she had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/the-winsome-lilt-of-digna-humming-in-the-garden-her-knowing-almost/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/at-this-stage-of-life-he-d-better-just-lean-into-love-because-if-he/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/bicyclist-s-philosophy-of-life-it-s-a-matter-of-faith-you-can-keep/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/how-love-builds-itself-unconsciously-he-thought-out-of-the-momentous/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“In the end, it's only the moments that we have.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/in-the-end-it-s-only-the-moments-that-we-have/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/he-and-i-had-a-bridge-that-no-one-else-traveled-that-made-us-artistic/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/look-long-enough-out-or-in-and-you-ll-be-glad-you-are-who-you-are/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/now-he-knew-that-there-was-nothing-so-vital-as-paying-attention-and/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/overblown-responsibility-was-a-part-of-my-preoccupation-with-myself/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/that-a-thing-made-by-hand-the-work-and-thought-of-a-single-craftsman/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/no-one-but-another-painter-could-know-the-delicacy-required-to/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/a-woman-can-t-stay-hard-when-all-around-her-is-loveliness/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/a-hard-choice-water-or-books-hmm-one-could-always-have-wine-instead/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/people-who-would-be-that-close-to-her-she-thought-a-matter-of-a-few/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

> [“I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/i-came-to-see-that-knowing-what-love-isn-t-might-be-just-as-valuable/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

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