“You need to surrender yourself to death before you ever begin, and accept your life as a state of grace, and then and only then will you be good enough.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“She leaves parts of herself unnamed and unexamined, and then he will name them, and she will see herself clearly in his words and… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“She just wants to build a garden and water it and have everything grow and everything stay alive and she does not want to… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“He has a way of watching her that makes her feel as if she is the most important thing in the world.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“the lattice of bones, the grooved condyles like volute woodwork,” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“she is a person like him, but she is not him, nor is she just a part of him” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“I told him how we were washed out to sea and how it was like making furious love to a clash of orgiastic rhinos… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“I want to survive this. She is surprised by the depth and clarity of her desire.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“At his best, we are more than all right. At his best he rises above all of it and he is more than any… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help me.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“You are supposed to come to the door and believe that hell awaits just on the other side, believe that this house is full… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“Hold tight to the world and do not let go and do not fuck this up.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
