"Despite all their fears, we ask very little……" — Andrew Sean Greer
"Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why."
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16 Quotes by Andrew Sean Greer
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How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
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When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
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It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place,…
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
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We are each the love of someone's life.
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Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility…
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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
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Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty,…
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No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched…
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married…
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion…
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us…
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